NusaBERT: Teaching IndoBERT to be Multilingual and Multicultural

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01817v1
• Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 08:05:34 GMT
• Title: NusaBERT: Teaching IndoBERT to be Multilingual and Multicultural
• Authors: Wilson Wongso, David Samuel Setiawan, Steven Limcorn, Ananto Joyoadikusumo
• Abstract summary: NusaBERT builds upon IndoBERT by incorporating vocabulary expansion and leveraging a diverse multilingual corpus that includes regional languages and dialects. Through rigorous evaluation across a range of benchmarks, NusaBERT demonstrates state-of-the-art performance in tasks involving multiple languages of Indonesia.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Indonesia's linguistic landscape is remarkably diverse, encompassing over 700 languages and dialects, making it one of the world's most linguistically rich nations. This diversity, coupled with the widespread practice of code-switching and the presence of low-resource regional languages, presents unique challenges for modern pre-trained language models. In response to these challenges, we developed NusaBERT, building upon IndoBERT by incorporating vocabulary expansion and leveraging a diverse multilingual corpus that includes regional languages and dialects. Through rigorous evaluation across a range of benchmarks, NusaBERT demonstrates state-of-the-art performance in tasks involving multiple languages of Indonesia, paving the way for future natural language understanding research for under-represented languages.

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