HeBERT: Pre-trained BERT for Polarity Analysis and Emotion Recognition
HeBERT is a Hebrew pretrained language model. It is based on Google's BERT architecture and it is BERT-Base config (Devlin et al. 2018).
HeBert was trained on three dataset:
- A Hebrew version of OSCAR (Ortiz, 2019): ~9.8 GB of data, including 1 billion words and over 20.8 millions sentences.
- A Hebrew dump of Wikipedia: ~650 MB of data, including over 63 millions words and 3.8 millions sentences
- Emotion UGC data that was collected for the purpose of this study. (described below) We evaluated the model on emotion recognition and sentiment analysis, for a downstream tasks.
Emotion UGC Data Description
Our User Genrated Content (UGC) is comments written on articles collected from 3 major news sites, between January 2020 to August 2020,. Total data size ~150 MB of data, including over 7 millions words and 350K sentences.
4000 sentences annotated by crowd members (3-10 annotators per sentence) for 8 emotions (anger, disgust, expectation , fear, happy, sadness, surprise and trust) and overall sentiment / polarity
In order to valid the annotation, we search an agreement between raters to emotion in each sentence using krippendorff's alpha (krippendorff, 1970). We left sentences that got alpha > 0.7. Note that while we found a general agreement between raters about emotion like happy, trust and disgust, there are few emotion with general disagreement about them, apparently given the complexity of finding them in the text (e.g. expectation and surprise).
Performance
sentiment analysis \t\t\t\t
| precision | recall | f1-score | |
|---|---|---|---|
| natural | 0.83 | 0.56 | 0.67 |
| positive | 0.96 | 0.92 | 0.94 |
| negative | 0.97 | 0.99 | 0.98 |
| accuracy | 0.97 | ||
| macro avg | 0.92 | 0.82 | 0.86 |
| weighted avg | 0.96 | 0.97 | 0.96 |
Stay tuned!
We are still working on our model and will edit this page as we progress.
Note that we have released only sentiment analysis (polarity) at this point, emotion detection will be released later on.
our git: https://github.com/avichaychriqui/HeBERT
If you used this model please cite us as :
Chriqui, A., & Yahav, I. (2021). HeBERT & HebEMO: a Hebrew BERT Model and a Tool for Polarity Analysis and Emotion Recognition. arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.01909.
@article{chriqui2021hebert,
title={HeBERT \& HebEMO: a Hebrew BERT Model and a Tool for Polarity Analysis and Emotion Recognition},
author={Chriqui, Avihay and Yahav, Inbal},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.01909},
year={2021}
}