jlattman/

EU_speech_parliament_roberta

EU speech detection model (all languages)

This model is trained to classify statements on the European Union. It finetuned a FacebookAI/xlm-roberta-base model on 1700 sentences from the German parliament. It is trained to detect explicit and implicit mentionings of the European Union.

Code Book If a sentence mentions the EU in an explicit or implicit way, the model categorizes it as EU speech. Examples can be mentioning about policies, politicians, events, elections on the European level.

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Model Details Finetuned from model: FacebookAI/xlm-roberta-base Epochs: 3 Accuracy: 0.93

Lattmann, J. (2025, March 17). Detecting EU sentiment in texts: A LLM Machine Learning application for Euroscepticism research. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/mravb_v1