Gabert -- An Irish Language Model

Barry James, Wagner Joachim, Cassidy Lauren, Cowap Alan, Lynn Teresa, Walsh Abigail, Meachair Mícheál J. Ó, Foster Jennifer. Arxiv 2021

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BERT Fine Tuning Model Architecture Pretraining Methods Training Techniques

The BERT family of neural language models have become highly popular due to their ability to provide sequences of text with rich context-sensitive token encodings which are able to generalise well to many NLP tasks. We introduce gaBERT, a monolingual BERT model for the Irish language. We compare our gaBERT model to multilingual BERT and the monolingual Irish WikiBERT, and we show that gaBERT provides better representations for a downstream parsing task. We also show how different filtering criteria, vocabulary size and the choice of subword tokenisation model affect downstream performance. We compare the results of fine-tuning a gaBERT model with an mBERT model for the task of identifying verbal multiword expressions, and show that the fine-tuned gaBERT model also performs better at this task. We release gaBERT and related code to the community.

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