What's so special about BERT's layers? A closer look at the NLP pipeline in monolingual and multilingual models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06499v2
• Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 11:51:34 GMT
• Title: What's so special about BERT's layers? A closer look at the NLP pipeline in monolingual and multilingual models
• Authors: Wietse de Vries, Andreas van Cranenburgh and Malvina Nissim
• Abstract summary: We probe a Dutch BERT-based model and the multilingual BERT model for Dutch NLP tasks. Through a deeper analysis of part-of-speech tagging, we show that also within a given task, information is spread over different parts of the network.
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• Abstract: Peeking into the inner workings of BERT has shown that its layers resemble the classical NLP pipeline, with progressively more complex tasks being concentrated in later layers. To investigate to what extent these results also hold for a language other than English, we probe a Dutch BERT-based model and the multilingual BERT model for Dutch NLP tasks. In addition, through a deeper analysis of part-of-speech tagging, we show that also within a given task, information is spread over different parts of the network and the pipeline might not be as neat as it seems. Each layer has different specialisations, so that it may be more useful to combine information from different layers, instead of selecting a single one based on the best overall performance.

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