---

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. 

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## 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}
}
```