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"abstract": "Transformer-based language models such as BERT have outperformed previous models on a large number of English benchmarks, but their evaluation is often limited to English or a small number of wellresourced languages. In this work, we evaluate monolingual, multilingual, and randomly initialized language models from the BERT family on a variety of Uralic languages including Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Erzya, Moksha, Karelian, Livvi, Komi Permyak, Komi Zyrian, Northern S\u00e1mi, and Skolt S\u00e1mi. When monolingual models are available (currently only et, fi, hu), these perform better on their native language, but in general they transfer worse than multilingual models or models of genetically unrelated languages that share the same character set. Remarkably, straightforward transfer of high-resource models, even without special efforts toward hyperparameter optimization, yields what appear to be state of the art POS and NER tools for the minority Uralic languages where there is sufficient data for finetuning.",
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"text": "Contextualized language models such as BERT (Devlin et al., 2019) drastically improved the state of the art for a multitude of natural language processing applications. Devlin et al. (2019) originally released 4 English and 2 multilingual pretrained versions of BERT (mBERT for short) that support over 100 languages including three Uralic languages: Estonian [et] , Finnish [fi] , and Hungarian [hu] . BERT was quickly followed by other large pretrained Transformer (Vaswani et al., 2017) based models such as RoBERTa (Liu et al., 2019) and multilingual models such as XLM-RoBERTa (Conneau et al., 2019) . Huggingface released the Transformers library (Wolf et al., 2020) , a Py-Torch implementation of Transformer-based language models along with a repository for pretrained models from community contribution\u00b9. This list now contains over 1000 entries, many of which are domain-specific or monolingual models.",
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