readme: ---
  language:
  - bg
  - cs
  - pl
  - ru
  ---
  
  # bert-base-bg-cs-pl-ru-cased
  
  SlavicBERT\[1\] \(Slavic \(bg, cs, pl, ru\), cased, 12‑layer, 768‑hidden, 12‑heads, 180M parameters\) was trained on Russian News and four Wikipedias: Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, and Russian. Subtoken vocabulary was built using this data. Multilingual BERT was used as an initialization for SlavicBERT.
  
  08.11.2021: upload model with MLM and NSP heads
  
  \[1\]: Arkhipov M., Trofimova M., Kuratov Y., Sorokin A. \(2019\). [Tuning Multilingual Transformers for Language-Specific Named Entity Recognition](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W19-3712/). ACL anthology W19-3712.
  