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---
language:
- hr
- bs
- sr
- cnr
- hbs
tags:
- masked-lm
widget:
- text: "Zovem se Marko i radim u [MASK]."
license: apache-2.0
---
# BERTić* [bert-ich] /bɜrtitʃ/ - A transformer language model for Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian
* The name should resemble the facts (1) that the model was trained in Zagreb, Croatia, where diminutives ending in -ić (as in fotić, smajlić, hengić etc.) are very popular, and (2) that most surnames in the countries where these languages are spoken end in -ić (with diminutive etymology as well).
This is the smaller generator of the main [discriminator model](https://huggingface.co/classla/bcms-bertic), useful if you want to continue pre-training the discriminator model.
If you use the model, please cite the following paper:
```
@inproceedings{ljubesic-lauc-2021-bertic,
title = "{BERT}i{\'c} - The Transformer Language Model for {B}osnian, {C}roatian, {M}ontenegrin and {S}erbian",
author = "Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola and Lauc, Davor",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing",
month = apr,
year = "2021",
address = "Kiyv, Ukraine",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2021.bsnlp-1.5",
pages = "37--42",
}
```