readme: ---
  
  language: pl
  
  license: cc-by-sa-4.0
  
  datasets:
  
  - 18th and 19th century articles mentioning Japan
  
  ---
  
  # Model for detection of Orientalization of Japan in newspaper articles
  
  This model was based on the original [HerBERT](https://huggingface.co/allegro/herbert-base-cased) Base. 
  
  The model was finetuned on a set of Polish press articles mentioning Japan from the years 1818-1939 to recognize if an article (or any input text) presents a genuine description of Japan, or whether it is an example of the orientalization of Japan. By orientalization we mean when a text represents Japan through the lenses of [Orientalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism), or a viewpoint that presents a piece of Eastern culture, in this case - Japan - in a deformed, distorted, and idealized form. In the definition of Orientalism we follow the work by [Edward Said](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Said), especially his book "[Orientalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism_(book))".
  
  ## Licenses
  
  The finetuned model with all attached files is licensed under [CC BY-SA 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), or Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. 
  
  <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png" /></a>
  
  ## Citations
  
  Please, cite this model using the following citation.
  
  ```
  @inproceedings{ptaszynski2022herbert-japan,
    title={Finetuned HerBERT model for detecting orientalization of Japan in newspaper articles}, 
    author={Michal Ptaszynski and Pawel Dybala and Zuzanna Barczyk}, 
    booktitle={HuggingFace}, 
    url={https://huggingface.co/ptaszynski/japan-topic-detection}
    year={2022}
  }
  ```