BERTabaporu: Assessing a Genre-Specific Language Model for Portuguese NLP

Pablo Botton Costa, Matheus Camasmie Pavan, Wesley Ramos Santos, Samuel Caetano Silva, Ivandré Paraboni


Abstract
Transformer-based language models such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) are now mainstream in the NLP field, but extensions to languages other than English, to new domains and/or to more specific text genres are still in demand. In this paper we introduced BERTabaporu, a BERT language model that has been pre-trained on Twitter data in the Brazilian Portuguese language. The model is shown to outperform the best-known general-purpose model for this language in three Twitter-related NLP tasks, making a potentially useful resource for Portuguese NLP in general.
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2023.ranlp-1.24
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Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
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September
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2023
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Varna, Bulgaria
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Ruslan Mitkov, Galia Angelova
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RANLP
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INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
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217–223
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Pablo Botton Costa, Matheus Camasmie Pavan, Wesley Ramos Santos, Samuel Caetano Silva, and Ivandré Paraboni. 2023. BERTabaporu: Assessing a Genre-Specific Language Model for Portuguese NLP. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, pages 217–223, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.
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BERTabaporu: Assessing a Genre-Specific Language Model for Portuguese NLP (Costa et al., RANLP 2023)
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