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  <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aub-mind/arabert/master/arabert_logo.png" width="100" align="left"/>
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- **AraBERT** is an Arabic pretrained lanaguage model based on [Google's BERT architechture](https://github.com/google-research/bert). AraBERT uses the same BERT-Base config. More details are available in the [AraBERT Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00104) and in the [AraBERT Meetup](https://github.com/WissamAntoun/pydata_khobar_meetup)
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- There are two versions of the model, AraBERTv0.1 and AraBERTv1, with the difference being that AraBERTv1 uses pre-segmented text where prefixes and suffixes were splitted using the [Farasa Segmenter](http://alt.qcri.org/farasa/segmenter.html).
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- We evalaute AraBERT models on different downstream tasks and compare them to [mBERT]((https://github.com/google-research/bert/blob/master/multilingual.md)), and other state of the art models (*To the extent of our knowledge*). The Tasks were Sentiment Analysis on 6 different datasets ([HARD](https://github.com/elnagara/HARD-Arabic-Dataset), [ASTD-Balanced](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D15-1299), [ArsenTD-Lev](https://staff.aub.edu.lb/~we07/Publications/ArSentD-LEV_Sentiment_Corpus.pdf), [LABR](https://github.com/mohamedadaly/LABR)), Named Entity Recognition with the [ANERcorp](http://curtis.ml.cmu.edu/w/courses/index.php/ANERcorp), and Arabic Question Answering on [Arabic-SQuAD and ARCD](https://github.com/husseinmozannar/SOQAL)
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  # AraBERTv2
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  We identified an issue with AraBERTv1's wordpiece vocabulary. The issue came from punctuations and numbers that were still attached to words when learned the wordpiece vocab. We now insert a space between numbers and characters and around punctuation characters.
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- The new vocabulary was learnt using the `BertWordpieceTokenizer` from the `tokenizers` library, and should now support the Fast tokenizer implementation from the `transformers` library.
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- **P.S.**: All the old BERT codes should work with the new BERT, just change the model name and check the new preprocessing dunction
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  **Please read the section on how to use the [preprocessing function](#Preprocessing)**
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  ## Bigger Dataset and More Compute
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  # Acknowledgments
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- Thanks to TensorFlow Research Cloud (TFRC) for the free access to Cloud TPUs, couldn't have done it without this program, and to the [AUB MIND Lab](https://sites.aub.edu.lb/mindlab/) Members for the continous support. Also thanks to [Yakshof](https://www.yakshof.com/#/) and Assafir for data and storage access. Another thanks for Habib Rahal (https://www.behance.net/rahalhabib), for putting a face to AraBERT.
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  # Contacts
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  **Wissam Antoun**: [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/wissam-antoun-622142b4/) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/wissam_antoun) | [Github](https://github.com/WissamAntoun) | <wfa07@mail.aub.edu> | <wissam.antoun@gmail.com>
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  <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aub-mind/arabert/master/arabert_logo.png" width="100" align="left"/>
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+ **AraBERT** is an Arabic pretrained language model based on [Google's BERT architechture](https://github.com/google-research/bert). AraBERT uses the same BERT-Base config. More details are available in the [AraBERT Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00104) and in the [AraBERT Meetup](https://github.com/WissamAntoun/pydata_khobar_meetup)
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+ There are two versions of the model, AraBERTv0.1 and AraBERTv1, with the difference being that AraBERTv1 uses pre-segmented text where prefixes and suffixes were split using the [Farasa Segmenter](http://alt.qcri.org/farasa/segmenter.html).
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+ We evaluate AraBERT models on different downstream tasks and compare them to [mBERT]((https://github.com/google-research/bert/blob/master/multilingual.md)), and other state of the art models (*To the extent of our knowledge*). The Tasks were Sentiment Analysis on 6 different datasets ([HARD](https://github.com/elnagara/HARD-Arabic-Dataset), [ASTD-Balanced](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D15-1299), [ArsenTD-Lev](https://staff.aub.edu.lb/~we07/Publications/ArSentD-LEV_Sentiment_Corpus.pdf), [LABR](https://github.com/mohamedadaly/LABR)), Named Entity Recognition with the [ANERcorp](http://curtis.ml.cmu.edu/w/courses/index.php/ANERcorp), and Arabic Question Answering on [Arabic-SQuAD and ARCD](https://github.com/husseinmozannar/SOQAL)
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  # AraBERTv2
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  We identified an issue with AraBERTv1's wordpiece vocabulary. The issue came from punctuations and numbers that were still attached to words when learned the wordpiece vocab. We now insert a space between numbers and characters and around punctuation characters.
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+ The new vocabulary was learned using the `BertWordpieceTokenizer` from the `tokenizers` library, and should now support the Fast tokenizer implementation from the `transformers` library.
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+ **P.S.**: All the old BERT codes should work with the new BERT, just change the model name and check the new preprocessing function
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  **Please read the section on how to use the [preprocessing function](#Preprocessing)**
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  ## Bigger Dataset and More Compute
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  # Acknowledgments
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+ Thanks to TensorFlow Research Cloud (TFRC) for the free access to Cloud TPUs, couldn't have done it without this program, and to the [AUB MIND Lab](https://sites.aub.edu.lb/mindlab/) Members for the continuous support. Also thanks to [Yakshof](https://www.yakshof.com/#/) and Assafir for data and storage access. Another thanks for Habib Rahal (https://www.behance.net/rahalhabib), for putting a face to AraBERT.
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  # Contacts
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  **Wissam Antoun**: [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/wissam-antoun-622142b4/) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/wissam_antoun) | [Github](https://github.com/WissamAntoun) | <wfa07@mail.aub.edu> | <wissam.antoun@gmail.com>