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---
language: de
license: mit
datasets:
- wikipedia
- OPUS
- OpenLegalData
---
# German ELECTRA base
Released, Oct 2020, this is a German ELECTRA language model trained collaboratively by the makers of the original German BERT (aka "bert-base-german-cased") and the dbmdz BERT (aka bert-base-german-dbmdz-cased). In our [paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.10906.pdf), we outline the steps taken to train our model. Our evaluation suggests that this model is somewhat undertrained. For best performance from a base sized model, we recommend deepset/gbert-base
## Overview
**Paper:** [here](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.10906.pdf)
**Architecture:** ELECTRA base (discriminator)
**Language:** German
## Performance
```
GermEval18 Coarse: 76.02
GermEval18 Fine: 42.22
GermEval14: 86.02
```
See also:
deepset/gbert-base
deepset/gbert-large
deepset/gelectra-base
deepset/gelectra-large
deepset/gelectra-base-generator
deepset/gelectra-large-generator
## Authors
Branden Chan: `branden.chan [at] deepset.ai`
Stefan Schweter: `stefan [at] schweter.eu`
Timo Möller: `timo.moeller [at] deepset.ai`
## About us
![deepset logo](https://workablehr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/account/logo/476306/logo)
We bring NLP to the industry via open source!
Our focus: Industry specific language models & large scale QA systems.
Some of our work:
- [German BERT (aka "bert-base-german-cased")](https://deepset.ai/german-bert)
- [GermanQuAD and GermanDPR datasets and models (aka "gelectra-base-germanquad", "gbert-base-germandpr")](https://deepset.ai/germanquad)
- [FARM](https://github.com/deepset-ai/FARM)
- [Haystack](https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/)
Get in touch:
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/deepset_ai) | [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/deepset-ai/) | [Slack](https://haystack.deepset.ai/community/join) | [GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/discussions) | [Website](https://deepset.ai)
By the way: [we're hiring!](http://www.deepset.ai/jobs)