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Czert -- Czech BERT-like Model for Language Representation

Computation and Language 2021-08-23 v3

Abstract

This paper describes the training process of the first Czech monolingual language representation models based on BERT and ALBERT architectures. We pre-train our models on more than 340K of sentences, which is 50 times more than multilingual models that include Czech data. We outperform the multilingual models on 9 out of 11 datasets. In addition, we establish the new state-of-the-art results on nine datasets. At the end, we discuss properties of monolingual and multilingual models based upon our results. We publish all the pre-trained and fine-tuned models freely for the research community.

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@article{arxiv.2103.13031,
  title  = {Czert -- Czech BERT-like Model for Language Representation},
  author = {Jakub Sido and Ondřej Pražák and Pavel Přibáň and Jan Pašek and Michal Seják and Miloslav Konopík},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.13031},
  year   = {2021}
}

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13 pages

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