ParsBERT (v2.0)

A Transformer-based Model for Persian Language Understanding

We reconstructed the vocabulary and fine-tuned the ParsBERT v1.1 on the new Persian corpora in order to provide some functionalities for using ParsBERT in other scopes! Please follow the ParsBERT repo for the latest information about previous and current models.

Persian Text Classification [DigiMag, Persian News]

The task target is labeling texts in a supervised manner in both existing datasets DigiMag and Persian News.

DigiMag

A total of 8,515 articles scraped from Digikala Online Magazine. This dataset includes seven different classes.

Video Games
Shopping Guide
Health Beauty
Science Technology
General
Art Cinema
Books Literature

Label	#
Video Games	1967
Shopping Guide	125
Health Beauty	1610
Science Technology	2772
General	120
Art Cinema	1667
Books Literature	254

Download You can download the dataset from here

Results

The following table summarizes the F1 score obtained by ParsBERT as compared to other models and architectures.

Dataset	ParsBERT v2	ParsBERT v1	mBERT
Digikala Magazine	93.65*	93.59	90.72

How to use :hugs:

Task	Notebook
Text Classification

BibTeX entry and citation info

Please cite in publications as the following:

@article{ParsBERT,
    title={ParsBERT: Transformer-based Model for Persian Language Understanding},
    author={Mehrdad Farahani, Mohammad Gharachorloo, Marzieh Farahani, Mohammad Manthouri},
    journal={ArXiv},
    year={2020},
    volume={abs/2005.12515}
}

Questions?

Post a Github issue on the ParsBERT Issues repo.