# NLP for The Greek Language: A Longer Survey

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10962 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.10962/

## Key facts

- Cited by 8 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 13 of its 328 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 20 Aug 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 13 of 13)

- [BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.04805/) (2018)
- [RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.11692/) (2019)
- [Enriching Word Vectors with Subword Information](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1607.04606/) (2016)
- [XNLI: Evaluating Cross-lingual Sentence Representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1809.05053/) (2018)
- [Rasa: Open Source Language Understanding and Dialogue Management](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1712.05181/) (2017)
- [Offensive Language Identification in Greek](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.07459/) (2020)
- [A Survey on Transfer Learning in Natural Language Processing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.04239/) (2020)
- [Restoring ancient text using deep learning: a case study on Greek epigraphy](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.06262/) (2019)
- [A Comprehensive Study on Deep Learning-based Methods for Sign Language Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.12530/) (2020)
- [GASC: Genre-Aware Semantic Change for Ancient Greek](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1903.05587/) (2019)
- [Word Embeddings from Large-Scale Greek Web Content](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.06694/) (2018)
- [Evaluation of Greek Word Embeddings](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.04032/) (2019)
- [An Ensemble Method for Producing Word Representations focusing on the Greek Language](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.04965/) (2019)

## Built on by (most cited first, 8 of 8)

- [Plutus: Benchmarking Large Language Models in Low-Resource Greek Finance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.18772/) (2025)
- [BabyBabelLM: A Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.10159/) (2025)
- [Evaluating Monolingual and Multilingual Large Language Models for Greek Question Answering: The DemosQA Benchmark](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.16811/) (2026)
- [Open or Closed LLM for Lesser-Resourced Languages? Lessons from Greek](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.12826/) (2025)
- [Ancient Greek to Modern Greek Machine Translation: A Novel Benchmark and Fine-Tuning Experiments on LLMs and NMT Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.18504/) (2026)
- [GreekBarRetrieval: A Benchmark for Greek Statutory Retrieval](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.18752/) (2026)
- [Maistros: A Greek Large Language Model Adapted Through Knowledge Distillation From Large Reasoning Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.01870/) (2026)
- [Svarna: An Open Corpus Workbench for Modern Greek](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.00970/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

English language is in the spotlight of the Natural Language Processing (NLP) community with other languages, like Greek, lagging behind in terms of offered methods, tools and resources. Due to the increasing interest in NLP, in this paper we try to condense research efforts for the automatic processing of Greek language covering the last three decades. In particular, we list and briefly discuss related works, resources and tools, categorized according to various processing layers and contexts. We are not restricted to the modern form of Greek language but also cover Ancient Greek and various Greek dialects. This survey can be useful for researchers and students interested in NLP tasks, Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management for the Greek language.