Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia (arzRoBERTaBASE)
This arzRoBERTaBASE model has been trained from scratch on the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia articles, downloaded on the 1st of January 2023, processed using
Gensim
Python library, preprocessed using tr
Linux/Unix utility and CAMeLTools
Python toolkit for Arabic NLP, and hosted here at SaiedAlshahrani/Egyptian_Arabic_Wikipedia_20230101.
It achieves the following results on the evaluation set:
- Pseudo-Perplexity: 115.80
Model description
We trained this Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia Masked Language Model (arzRoBERTaBASE) to evaluate its performance using the Fill-Mask evaluation task and the Masked Arab States Dataset (MASD) dataset and measure the impact of template-based translation on the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia edition.
For more details about the experiment, please read and cite our paper:
@inproceedings{alshahrani-etal-2023-performance,
title = "{Performance Implications of Using Unrepresentative Corpora in {A}rabic Natural Language Processing}",
author = "Alshahrani, Saied and Alshahrani, Norah and Dey, Soumyabrata and Matthews, Jeanna",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the The First Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2023)",
month = December,
year = "2023",
address = "Singapore (Hybrid)",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.arabicnlp-1.19",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.arabicnlp-1.19",
pages = "218--231",
abstract = "Wikipedia articles are a widely used source of training data for Natural Language Processing (NLP) research, particularly as corpora for low-resource languages like Arabic. However, it is essential to understand the extent to which these corpora reflect the representative contributions of native speakers, especially when many entries in a given language are directly translated from other languages or automatically generated through automated mechanisms. In this paper, we study the performance implications of using inorganic corpora that are not representative of native speakers and are generated through automated techniques such as bot generation or automated template-based translation. The case of the Arabic Wikipedia editions gives a unique case study of this since the Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia edition (ARY) is small but representative, the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia edition (ARZ) is large but unrepresentative, and the Modern Standard Arabic Wikipedia edition (AR) is both large and more representative. We intrinsically evaluate the performance of two main NLP upstream tasks, namely word representation and language modeling, using word analogy evaluations and fill-mask evaluations using our two newly created datasets: Arab States Analogy Dataset (ASAD) and Masked Arab States Dataset (MASD). We demonstrate that for good NLP performance, we need both large and organic corpora; neither alone is sufficient. We show that producing large corpora through automated means can be a counter-productive, producing models that both perform worse and lack cultural richness and meaningful representation of the Arabic language and its native speakers.",
}
Intended uses & limitations
We do not recommend using this model because it was trained only on the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia articles, which are known by the template-based translation from English, producing limited, shallow, and unrepresentative articles, unless you fine-tune the model on a large, organic, and representative Egyptian dataset.
Training and evaluation data
We have trained this model on the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia articles (SaiedAlshahrani/Egyptian_Arabic_Wikipedia_20230101) without using any validation or evaluation data (only training data) due to a lack of computational power.
Training procedure
We have trained this model using the Paperspace GPU-Cloud service. We used a machine with 8 CPUs, 45GB RAM, and A6000 GPU with 48GB RAM.
Training hyperparameters
The following hyperparameters were used during training:
- learning_rate: 0.0001
- train_batch_size: 256
- eval_batch_size: 8
- seed: 42
- optimizer: Adam with betas=(0.9,0.98) and epsilon=1e-06
- lr_scheduler_type: linear
- num_epochs: 5
Training results
Epoch | Step | Training Loss |
---|---|---|
1 | 2500 | 2.038300 |
2 | 5000 | 0.878800 |
3 | 7500 | 0.682800 |
4 | 10000 | 0.613100 |
5 | 12500 | 0.574500 |
Train Runtime | Train Samples Per Second | Train Steps Per Second | Total Flos | Train Loss | Epoch |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
14677.117400 | 248.119000 | 0.970000 | 120746231839334400.000000 | 0.908513 | 5.000000 |
Evaluation results
This arzRoBERTaBASE model has been evaluated on the Masked Arab States Dataset (SaiedAlshahrani/MASD).
K=10 | K=50 | K=100 |
---|---|---|
8.12% | 25.62% | 35% |
Framework versions
- Datasets 2.9.0
- Tokenizers 0.12.1
- Transformers 4.24.0
- Pytorch 1.12.1+cu116
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