@tblock let me know how it is going? Btw. Are you sure you can include the scraped text in the csv format? It might be better to include just the links and the code to fetch them from websites, otherwise your repo should have a license: noncomercial research only.
@piotr.czapla Iāll keep you updated. Iām finishing my thesis about it at the moment.
Regarding the licensing, please check out https://github.com/tblock/10kGNAD for more detail on the dataset. I didnāt scrape the news articles, they are extracted form the One Million Post Corpus. I detail the license in the project readme and on the project page. But thanks for the heads up!
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Hi @tblock,
I am also doing similar works and I am using the dataset from your repo.
Unfortunately, the dataset has more than one delimiters for certain rows.
Is ā;ā the delimiter, if yes then there are more than one for certain rows.
Is my understanding is right or?
Yes thatās correct.
I tried to keep changes from the original source to a minimum. Some texts could contain one or even multiple ā;ā. However this should not be a problem, since texts containing separators are quoted in the typical pythonic manner.
See the code folder for examples using the python csv lib.
Hey there,
Iām quite new to this field and Iām wondering if there are already language models for German that I could use? So If Iām considering doing a new project on text classification, what would you recomment?
Going through the UMLfit Steps myself?
Thanks in advance!
Dear @LisaN,
There are number of approcahes that achieved state-of-the-art(SOTA) scores.
Its a evolving field where an approach which published few months ago became a āclassicalā approach and something new takes over. See openAI GPT-2 for example.
Since you are new to this field, I would recommend you to go through some baseline models such as RandomForest, SVM, ā¦etc.
See their approach and build you basics.
Then go for ULMfiT.
Other models to look for after mastering ULMfIT: Google BERT, ELMo, openAI, tranformer XL(please check in internet for correct names).
I hope these tips will be useful to you 
Regards,
Pappu
Dear @Skeptic,
Thanks for the advice. I did some basic Neural Network and SGD models in Scikit Learn and Tensorflow, but Iām trying a little project on german language now - of course I could do it without using a pretrained model, but Iām wondering if anyone of you already used a pretrained model on German language and if so, would you only ātrustā your own or would you reuse others?
And if you reuse others, which ones? I found one here in this Thread - thanks by the way, (https://lernapparat.de/german-lm/) but it didnāt work on the first try. So do you think I should invest time on making that one run or should I create my own?
Being state of the art is not that important to me, I just want to do good 
Hello @LisaN ,
That language model (generously provided by @t-v, thank you!) didnāt work for me either on my first attempt. I tried:
learn = language_model_learner(data_lm, arch = AWD_LSTM, pretrained = False, drop_mult=0.3)
learn.load_pretrained(wgts_fname=āGerman-LM/DE_model_dropout_0.1_1cycle_10epochs.ptā, itos_fname=āGerman-LM/DE_spacy_itos.pklā)
ā¦ but I got this error message:
Iām not sure, it might have something to do with the fastai library developing/changing fast? Thomasā model was from last summer, I believe.
What problems did you have while trying to import the language model?
If we donāt find an easy fix we might ask Thomas for inspiration&enlightenment.
I am very interested in using the same model as a basis for further fine tuning my pet project (text regression on German fiction).
All the best,
Johannes
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Hey @jolackner,
wow, cool (for me) that you are encountering the same problem! So your code looks as if you want an empty Learner first and then load the pretrained in, right? That was also one of my attempts. I downloaded them into the working directory - but also renamed them (DE_model.pt and DE_itos.pkl) because I considered two dots in a Filename might not be good.
The second attempt was going in the pytorch direction as described here. This one can load the Model weights via
DE_model = torch.load(ā/kaggle/working/DE_model.ptā, map_location=lambda storage, loc: storage)
and the pickle goes like this:
DE_itos = pickle.load((Path(ā/kaggle/working/DE_itos.pklā)).open(ārbā))
So I was able to load the weights and the Pickle but didnāt know how to build the Architecture from thereā¦
I tried
learn = language_model_learner(data_lm, arch=DE_model, model_dir=path vocab=DE_itos)
Which gives me this error:
TypeError: unhashable type: ācollections.OrderedDictā
I must admit - I donāt know what Iām doing, sometimes I copy and runā¦
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I think thereās only three predefined architectures you can load for the time being, see the fastai docs here:
https://docs.fast.ai/text.learner.html#language_model_learner
Trying to do arch=DE_model wouldnāt work, according to the docs. I guess youāll need arch= AWD_LSTM . And then you would load your custom DE_model via
load_pretrained (https://docs.fast.ai/text.learner.html#RNNLearner.load_pretrained)
This just for now, Iāll provide updates if I can get the pretrained language model to work.
I pretrained on german wikipedia data and scraped about 60k~ german amazon reviews to ultimately create a sentiment classifier. It achieves about 93% accuracy on training, validation as well as an independent test set so Iām happy about that.
If itās helpful for anyone Iāll upload my pretrained model here.
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Hi,
that would be wonderful! How long did it take you to train?
Hi @jyr1,
It will be a great help to me or to the community.
Please do provide a link of your work.
The pretrained model discussed here is neither working for me.
Thanks in advance
Regards Pappu
About 12 hours on a Tesla P100 (Google Cloud). To be honest I donāt have much other details as I was merely interested in sentiment classification and not the preliminary steps.
Anyways, hereās the link, the vocab is 30k. You can load the model directly in language_model_learner using the pretrained_fnames argument.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gkuY3Tz6LBmcehAnZ95jssV80CBQh7L1
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Hi @jyr1,
Thanks a lot for sharing and highly appreciate your work.
Could you also give the link to the Amazon Reviews, if I can check against that data-set?
Regards,
Pappu
We have 3 pre-trained models for German and we are working on incorporating them to the fast.ai library. Two of them are using SentencePiece and one is using vocabulary. The only issue with our models that they are using QRNN which is faster than LSTM but you need a functional CUDA compiler in your path so that Fastai can build the necessary modules for you.
The issues you are experiencing with previous models are most likely caused by changes to the fastai library. If you canāt wait, go to the https://github.com/n-waves/ulmfit-multilingual there is a version of ULMFiT extended with setence piece and we have pretrained models here: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1t3DqH0ZJC2gDMKEq9vTa5jqxBiVAnClR
We are working to address, stay tuned
Apparently BERT and Facebooks LASER have worse performance than ULMFiT for classsification task we checked. Have a look here on the results: https://github.com/n-waves/ulmfit-multilingual/blob/master/results/MLDoc.md
Really cool. Why have you used only 30k words?
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Thank you for sharing, thatās great! Running your model on Colab seems to be working without hiccups so far.
Have a great day & TschĆ¼s
Johannes
Cool, can you share your notebooks so others can see how to run it?