readme: ---
  language: wol
  widget:
  - text: Looloo taxoon ñuy réew yu naat.
  ---
  
  This is a [MicroBERT](https://github.com/lgessler/microbert) model for Wolof.
  
  * Its suffix is **-m**, which means that it was pretrained using supervision from masked language modeling.
  * The unlabeled Wolof data was taken from a February 2022 dump of Uyghur Wikipedia, totaling 517,237 tokens. 
  * The UD treebank [UD_Wolof-WDT](https://github.com/UniversalDependencies/UD_Wolof-WDT), v2.9, totaling 44,258 tokens, was used for labeled data.
  
  Please see [the repository](https://github.com/lgessler/microbert) and 
  [the paper](https://github.com/lgessler/microbert/raw/master/MicroBERT__MRL_2022_.pdf) for more details.
  