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BERTu

A Maltese monolingual model pre-trained from scratch on the Korpus Malti v4.0 using the BERT (base) architecture.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at https://mlrs.research.um.edu.mt/.

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Citation

This work was first presented in Pre-training Data Quality and Quantity for a Low-Resource Language: New Corpus and BERT Models for Maltese. Cite it as follows:

@inproceedings{BERTu,
    title = "Pre-training Data Quality and Quantity for a Low-Resource Language: New Corpus and {BERT} Models for {M}altese",
    author = "Micallef, Kurt  and
              Gatt, Albert  and
              Tanti, Marc  and
              van der Plas, Lonneke  and
              Borg, Claudia",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Deep Learning for Low-Resource Natural Language Processing",
    month = jul,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Hybrid",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.deeplo-1.10",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.deeplo-1.10",
    pages = "90--101",
}
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Dataset used to train MLRS/BERTu

Evaluation results

  • Unlabelled Attachment Score on Maltese Universal Dependencies Treebank (MUDT)
    self-reported
    92.310
  • Labelled Attachment Score on Maltese Universal Dependencies Treebank (MUDT)
    self-reported
    88.140
  • UPOS Accuracy on MLRS POS dataset
    self-reported
    98.580
  • XPOS Accuracy on MLRS POS dataset
    self-reported
    98.540
  • Span-based F1 on WikiAnn (Maltese)
    self-reported
    86.770
  • Macro-averaged F1 on Maltese Sentiment Analysis Dataset
    self-reported
    78.960