CzechTopic: A Benchmark for Zero-Shot Topic Localization in Historical Czech Documents

arXiv:2603.03884 · cs.CL, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-03-04 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-03-04

Updated: 2026-09-16

Code: https://github.com/dcgm/czechtopic

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Benchmark — 16× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• F1 Score — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transformer — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Distillation — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Ablation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Annotator Agreement — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation study — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Clustering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AdamW Optimizer — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generative Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• In-Context Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Optimal Transport — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Semantic Understanding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• DocBERT: BERT for Document Classification
• gpt-oss-120b & gpt-oss-20b Model Card
• BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• BERTopic: Neural topic modeling with a class-based TF-IDF procedure
• Gemma 3 Technical Report
• mmBERT: A Modern Multilingual Encoder with Annealed Language Learning
• Strategies for Span Labeling with Large Language Models
• Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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