FinEst BERT

This corpus offers a Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) multilingual model trained from scratch, covering three languages: Finnish, Estonian, and English. Used for various NLP classification tasks on the mentioned three languages, supporting both monolingual and multilingual/crosslingual (knowledge transfer) tasks. Whole-word masking used during data preparation and training; trained for 40 epochs with sequence length 128 and another 4 epochs with sequence length 512. FinEst BERT model published here is in pytorch format.

Corpora used:
Finnish – STT articles, CoNLL 2017 shared task, Ylilauta downloadable version
Estonian – Ekspress Meedia articles, CoNLL 2017 shared task
English – English wikipedia

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