topic-obits

Fine-tuned RoBERTa-large for detecting news on obituaries

Model Description

This model is a finetuned RoBERTa-large, for classifying whether news articles are obituaries.

How to Use

from transformers import pipeline
classifier = pipeline("text-classification", model="dell-research-harvard/topic-obits")
classifier("John Smith died after a long illness")

Training data

The model was trained on a hand-labelled sample of data from the NEWSWIRE dataset.

Test set results

Citation Information

You can cite this dataset using

@misc{silcock2024newswirelargescalestructureddatabase,
      title={Newswire: A Large-Scale Structured Database of a Century of Historical News}, 
      author={Emily Silcock and Abhishek Arora and Luca D'Amico-Wong and Melissa Dell},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2406.09490},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09490}, 
}

Applications

We applied this model to a century of historical news articles. You can see all the classifications in the NEWSWIRE dataset.