transformers pytorch jax bert fill-mask tagalog filipino tl arxiv:2005.02068 arxiv:1907.00409 license:gpl-3.0 autotrain_compatible region:us
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language: tl
license: gpl-3.0
tags:
- bert
- tagalog
- filipino
inference: false
---

**Deprecation Notice**  
This model is deprecated. New Filipino Transformer models trained with a much larger corpora are available.  
Use [`jcblaise/roberta-tagalog-base`](https://huggingface.co/jcblaise/roberta-tagalog-base) or [`jcblaise/roberta-tagalog-large`](https://huggingface.co/jcblaise/roberta-tagalog-large) instead for better performance.

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# BERT Tagalog Base Uncased (Whole Word Masking)
Tagalog version of BERT trained on a large preprocessed text corpus scraped and sourced from the internet. This model is part of a larger research project. We open-source the model to allow greater usage within the Filipino NLP community. This particular version uses whole word masking.

## Citations
All model details and training setups can be found in our papers. If you use our model or find it useful in your projects, please cite our work:

```
@article{cruz2020establishing,
  title={Establishing Baselines for Text Classification in Low-Resource Languages},
  author={Cruz, Jan Christian Blaise and Cheng, Charibeth},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.02068},
  year={2020}
}

@article{cruz2019evaluating,
  title={Evaluating Language Model Finetuning Techniques for Low-resource Languages},
  author={Cruz, Jan Christian Blaise and Cheng, Charibeth},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.00409},
  year={2019}
}
```

## Data and Other Resources
Data used to train this model as well as other benchmark datasets in Filipino can be found in my website at https://blaisecruz.com

## Contact
If you have questions, concerns, or if you just want to chat about NLP and low-resource languages in general, you may reach me through my work email at me@blaisecruz.com
