readme: ---
  language: tl
  tags:
  - bert
  - tagalog
  - filipino
  license: gpl-3.0
  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.
  
  ---
  
  # BERT Tagalog Base Cased (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
  