SwissBERT: The Multilingual Language Model for Switzerland

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Hauptverfasser: Vamvas, Jannis, Graën, Johannes, Sennrich, Rico
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author Vamvas, Jannis
Graën, Johannes
Sennrich, Rico
author_facet Vamvas, Jannis
Graën, Johannes
Sennrich, Rico
contents We present SwissBERT, a masked language model created specifically for processing Switzerland-related text. SwissBERT is a pre-trained model that we adapted to news articles written in the national languages of Switzerland -- German, French, Italian, and Romansh. We evaluate SwissBERT on natural language understanding tasks related to Switzerland and find that it tends to outperform previous models on these tasks, especially when processing contemporary news and/or Romansh Grischun. Since SwissBERT uses language adapters, it may be extended to Swiss German dialects in future work. The model and our open-source code are publicly released at https://github.com/ZurichNLP/swissbert.
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spellingShingle SwissBERT: The Multilingual Language Model for Switzerland
Vamvas, Jannis
Graën, Johannes
Sennrich, Rico
Computation and Language
We present SwissBERT, a masked language model created specifically for processing Switzerland-related text. SwissBERT is a pre-trained model that we adapted to news articles written in the national languages of Switzerland -- German, French, Italian, and Romansh. We evaluate SwissBERT on natural language understanding tasks related to Switzerland and find that it tends to outperform previous models on these tasks, especially when processing contemporary news and/or Romansh Grischun. Since SwissBERT uses language adapters, it may be extended to Swiss German dialects in future work. The model and our open-source code are publicly released at https://github.com/ZurichNLP/swissbert.
title SwissBERT: The Multilingual Language Model for Switzerland
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13310