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RoBERTweet: A BERT Language Model for Romanian Tweets

Computation and Language 2023-06-13 v1

Abstract

Developing natural language processing (NLP) systems for social media analysis remains an important topic in artificial intelligence research. This article introduces RoBERTweet, the first Transformer architecture trained on Romanian tweets. Our RoBERTweet comes in two versions, following the base and large architectures of BERT. The corpus used for pre-training the models represents a novelty for the Romanian NLP community and consists of all tweets collected from 2008 to 2022. Experiments show that RoBERTweet models outperform the previous general-domain Romanian and multilingual language models on three NLP tasks with tweet inputs: emotion detection, sexist language identification, and named entity recognition. We make our models and the newly created corpus of Romanian tweets freely available.

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@article{arxiv.2306.06598,
  title  = {RoBERTweet: A BERT Language Model for Romanian Tweets},
  author = {Iulian-Marius Tăiatu and Andrei-Marius Avram and Dumitru-Clementin Cercel and Florin Pop},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.06598},
  year   = {2023}
}

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Accepted at NLDB2023

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