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language: ja
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
datasets:
- wikipedia
widget:
- text: 仙台は「[MASK]の都」と呼ばれている。
---
# BERT base Japanese (character tokenization, whole word masking enabled)
This is a [BERT](https://github.com/google-research/bert) model pretrained on texts in the Japanese language.
This version of the model processes input texts with word-level tokenization based on the IPA dictionary, followed by character-level tokenization.
Additionally, the model is trained with the whole word masking enabled for the masked language modeling (MLM) objective.
The codes for the pretraining are available at [cl-tohoku/bert-japanese](https://github.com/cl-tohoku/bert-japanese/tree/v1.0).
## Model architecture
The model architecture is the same as the original BERT base model; 12 layers, 768 dimensions of hidden states, and 12 attention heads.
## Training Data
The model is trained on Japanese Wikipedia as of September 1, 2019.
To generate the training corpus, [WikiExtractor](https://github.com/attardi/wikiextractor) is used to extract plain texts from a dump file of Wikipedia articles.
The text files used for the training are 2.6GB in size, consisting of approximately 17M sentences.
## Tokenization
The texts are first tokenized by [MeCab](https://taku910.github.io/mecab/) morphological parser with the IPA dictionary and then split into characters.
The vocabulary size is 4000.
## Training
The model is trained with the same configuration as the original BERT; 512 tokens per instance, 256 instances per batch, and 1M training steps.
For the training of the MLM (masked language modeling) objective, we introduced the **Whole Word Masking** in which all of the subword tokens corresponding to a single word (tokenized by MeCab) are masked at once.
## Licenses
The pretrained models are distributed under the terms of the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).
## Acknowledgments
For training models, we used Cloud TPUs provided by [TensorFlow Research Cloud](https://www.tensorflow.org/tfrc/) program.
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