Sevasti Ioanna Papaioannou
2026
GRDD+: An Extended Greek Dialectal Dataset with Cross-Architecture Fine-tuning Evaluation
Stergios Chatzikyriakidis | Dimitriοs Papadakis | Sevasti Ioanna Papaioannou | Erofili Psaltaki
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Stergios Chatzikyriakidis | Dimitriοs Papadakis | Sevasti Ioanna Papaioannou | Erofili Psaltaki
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
We present an extended Greek Dialectal Dataset (GRDD+) that complements the existing GRDD dataset with more data from Cretan, Cypriot, Pontic and Northern Greek, while we add six new varieties: Greco-Corsican, Griko (Southern Italian Greek), Maniot, Heptanesian, Tsakonian, and Katharevusa Greek. The result is a dataset with total size 6,374,939 words and 10 varieties. This is the first dataset with such variation and size to date. We conduct a number of fine-tuning experiments to see the effect of good quality dialectal data on a number of LLMs. We fine-tune three model architectures (Llama-3-8B, Llama-3.1-8B, Krikri-8B) and compare the results to frontier models (Claude-3.7-Sonnet, Gemini-2.5, ChatGPT-5).