Pre-training and Evaluating Transformer-based Language Models for Icelandic
In this paper, we evaluate several Transformer-based language models for Icelandic on four downstream tasks: Part-of-Speech tagging, Named Entity Recognition. Dependency Parsing, and Automatic Text Summarization. We pre-train four types of monolingual ELECTRA and ConvBERT models and compare our results to a previously trained monolingual RoBERTa model and the multilingual mBERT model. We find that the Transformer models obtain better results, often by a large margin, compared to previous state-of-the-art models. Furthermore, our results indicate that pre-training larger language models results in a significant reduction in error rates in comparison to smaller models. Finally, our results show that the monolingual models for Icelandic outperform a comparably sized multilingual model.
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Dependency Parsingnamed-entity-recognitionNamed Entity RecognitionNamed Entity Recognition (NER)Part-Of-Speech TaggingText SummarizationSimilar Papers 제목 키워드 기반
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