A multi-level multi-label text classification dataset of 19th century Ottoman and Russian literary and critical texts

Gokcen Gokceoglu, Devrim Çavuşoğlu, Emre Akbas, Özen Dolcerocca


Abstract
This paper introduces a multi-level, multi-label text classification dataset comprising over 3000 documents. The dataset features literary and critical texts from 19th-century Ottoman Turkish and Russian. It is the first study to apply large language models (LLMs) to this dataset, sourced from prominent literary periodicals of the era. The texts have been meticulously organized and labeled. This was done according to a taxonomic framework that takes into account both their structural and semantic attributes. Articles are categorized and tagged with bibliometric metadata by human experts. We present baseline classification results using a classical bag-of-words (BoW) naive Bayes model and three modern LLMs: multilingual BERT, Falcon, and Llama-v2. We found that in certain cases, Bag of Words (BoW) outperforms Large Language Models (LLMs), emphasizing the need for additional research, especially in low-resource language settings. This dataset is expected to be a valuable resource for researchers in natural language processing and machine learning, especially for historical and low-resource languages. The dataset is publicly available.
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2024.findings-acl.393
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024
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August
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2024
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Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting
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Lun-Wei Ku, Andre Martins, Vivek Srikumar
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Gokcen Gokceoglu, Devrim Çavuşoğlu, Emre Akbas, and Özen Dolcerocca. 2024. A multi-level multi-label text classification dataset of 19th century Ottoman and Russian literary and critical texts. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024, pages 6585–6596, Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A multi-level multi-label text classification dataset of 19th century Ottoman and Russian literary and critical texts (Gokceoglu et al., Findings 2024)
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