readme: ---
  language: 
  - hr
  - bs
  - sr
  - cnr
  - hbs
  
  tags:
  - masked-lm
  
  widget:
  - text: "Zovem se Marko i radim u [MASK]."
  
  license: apache-2.0
  
  ---
  
  # BERTić&ast; [bert-ich] /bɜrtitʃ/ - A transformer language model for Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian
  
  &ast; The name should resemble the facts (1) that the model was trained in Zagreb, Croatia, where diminutives ending in -ić (as in fotić, smajlić, hengić etc.) are very popular, and (2) that most surnames in the countries where these languages are spoken end in -ić (with diminutive etymology as well).
  
  This is the smaller generator of the main [discriminator model](https://huggingface.co/classla/bcms-bertic), useful if you want to continue pre-training the discriminator model.
  
  If you use the model, please cite the following paper:
  
  ```
  @inproceedings{ljubesic-lauc-2021-bertic,
      title = "{BERT}i{\'c} - The Transformer Language Model for {B}osnian, {C}roatian, {M}ontenegrin and {S}erbian",
      author = "Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and Lauc, Davor",
      booktitle = "Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing",
      month = apr,
      year = "2021",
      address = "Kiyv, Ukraine",
      publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
      url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2021.bsnlp-1.5",
      pages = "37--42",
  
  }
  ```
  