readme: ---
  language: mlt
  widget:
  - text: Hu rrifjuta l-akkużi li l-Gvern Malti qed jimxi bi djufija.
  ---
  
  This is a [MicroBERT](https://github.com/lgessler/microbert) model for Maltese.
  
  * Its suffix is **-mxp**, which means that it was pretrained using supervision from masked language modeling, XPOS tagging, and UD dependency parsing.
  * The unlabeled Maltese data was taken from a February 2022 dump of Maltese Wikipedia, totaling 2,113,223 tokens. 
  * The UD treebank [UD_Maltese-GSD](https://github.com/UniversalDependencies/UD_Maltese-MUDT), v2.9, totaling 44,162 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.
  
  