bert-base-irish-cased-v1
gaBERT is a BERT-base model trained on 7.9M Irish sentences. For more details, including the hyperparameters and pretraining corpora used please refer to our paper.
Model description
Encoder-based Transformer to be used to obtain features for finetuning for downstream tasks in Irish.
Intended uses & limitations
Some data used to pretrain gaBERT was scraped from the web which potentially contains ethically problematic text (bias, hate, adult content, etc.). Consequently, downstream tasks/applications using gaBERT should be thoroughly tested with respect to ethical considerations.
Training hyperparameters
The following hyperparameters were used during training:
- optimizer: None
- training_precision: float32
Framework versions
- Transformers 4.20.1
- TensorFlow 2.9.1
- Datasets 2.3.2
- Tokenizers 0.12.1
BibTeX entry and citation info
If you use this model in your research, please consider citing our paper:
@inproceedings{barry-etal-2022-gabert,
title = "ga{BERT} {---} an {I}rish Language Model",
author = "Barry, James and
Wagner, Joachim and
Cassidy, Lauren and
Cowap, Alan and
Lynn, Teresa and
Walsh, Abigail and
{\'O} Meachair, M{\'\i}che{\'a}l J. and
Foster, Jennifer",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
month = jun,
year = "2022",
address = "Marseille, France",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.511",
pages = "4774--4788",
abstract = "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.",
}