readme: ---
  language: 
    - grc
  thumbnail: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/altsoph/misc/main/imgs/ancientbert.png
  tags:
  - bert
  - classifier
  - greek
  - ancient
  - mlm
  license: mit
  ---
  
  A BERT pre-trained language model for an ancient greek language.
  
  We used [GreekBERT from @nlpaueb](https://huggingface.co/nlpaueb/bert-base-greek-uncased-v1) and fine-tuned it with the MLM objective on several corpora of ancient greek texts. Later, we used it to train several classifiers to assist an author and style attribution of a couple of recently discovered texts.
  
  
  If you use the model, please cite the following:
  
  ```
  @inproceedings{Yamshchikov-etal-2022-plutarch,
      title = "BERT in Plutarch’s Shadows",
      author = "Ivan P. Yamshchikov and
        Alexey Tikhonov  and
        Yorgos Pantis  and
        Charlotte Schubert  and
        J{\"u}rgen Jost",
      booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
      year = "2022",
  }
  ```