---
license: lgpl-3.0
language:
- fa
base_model:
- HooshvareLab/bert-base-parsbert-uncased
---
# SINA-BERT: A Pre-trained Language Model for Analysis of Medical Texts in Persian

SINA-BERT is the first Persian medical language model pre-trained on BERT (Devlin et al.,2018). SINA-BERT utilizes pre-training on a large-scale corpus of medical contents including formal and informal texts collected from a variety of online resources in order to improve the performance on health-care related tasks.


## Model Evaluation
SINA-BERT can be used for any Persian medical representative task. In our paper we have examined the followings:

1) categorization of medical questions,
2) medical sentiment analysis,
3) and medical question retrieval.
  
For each task, we have developed Persian annotated data sets, and learnt a representation for the data of each task especially complex and long medical questions. With the same architecture being used across tasks, SINA-BERT outperforms BERT-based models that were previously made available in the Persian language.

To read about the datasets and results, please refer to SINA-BERT paper: [arXiv:2104.07613v1](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.07613)


- **Developed by:** HooshAfzar Salamat Team
- **Language(s) (NLP):** Persian
- **Finetuned from model:** [ParsBert](https://huggingface.co/HooshvareLab/bert-base-parsbert-uncased)

### Model Sources [optional]

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- **Repository:** [GitHub](https://github.com/nasrin-taghizadeh/SinaBERT)
- **Paper [optional]:** [arXive paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.07613)

## How to use

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```
from transformers import AutoConfig, AutoTokenizer, AutoModel

config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained("hooshafzar/SINA-BERT")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("hooshafzar/SINA-BERT")
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("hooshafzar/SINA-BERT")

```


## Citation

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```bibtex
@article{taghizadeh2021sina,
  title={SINA-BERT: a pre-trained language model for analysis of medical texts in Persian},
  author={Taghizadeh, Nasrin and Doostmohammadi, Ehsan and Seifossadat, Elham and Rabiee, Hamid R and Tahaei, Maedeh S},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.07613},
  year={2021}
}
```