IndoBERTweet: A Pretrained Language Model for Indonesian Twitter with Effective Domain-Specific Vocabulary Initialization

Fajri Koto, Jey Han Lau, Timothy Baldwin


Abstract
We present IndoBERTweet, the first large-scale pretrained model for Indonesian Twitter that is trained by extending a monolingually-trained Indonesian BERT model with additive domain-specific vocabulary. We focus in particular on efficient model adaptation under vocabulary mismatch, and benchmark different ways of initializing the BERT embedding layer for new word types. We find that initializing with the average BERT subword embedding makes pretraining five times faster, and is more effective than proposed methods for vocabulary adaptation in terms of extrinsic evaluation over seven Twitter-based datasets.
Anthology ID:
2021.emnlp-main.833
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Month:
November
Year:
2021
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Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Editors:
Marie-Francine Moens, Xuanjing Huang, Lucia Specia, Scott Wen-tau Yih
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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10660–10668
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.833
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.833
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Fajri Koto, Jey Han Lau, and Timothy Baldwin. 2021. IndoBERTweet: A Pretrained Language Model for Indonesian Twitter with Effective Domain-Specific Vocabulary Initialization. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 10660–10668, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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IndoBERTweet: A Pretrained Language Model for Indonesian Twitter with Effective Domain-Specific Vocabulary Initialization (Koto et al., EMNLP 2021)
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 indolem/indobertweet