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Extending Multilingual BERT to Low-Resource Languages

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arxiv 2004.13640 v1 pith:TY327D4U submitted 2020-04-28 cs.CL

Zihan Wang , Karthikeyan K , Stephen Mayhew , Dan Roth This is my paper · ORCID
classification cs.CL
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Multilingual BERT (M-BERT) has been a huge success in both supervised and zero-shot cross-lingual transfer learning. However, this success has focused only on the top 104 languages in Wikipedia that it was trained on. In this paper, we propose a simple but effective approach to extend M-BERT (E-BERT) so that it can benefit any new language, and show that our approach benefits languages that are already in M-BERT as well. We perform an extensive set of experiments with Named Entity Recognition (NER) on 27 languages, only 16 of which are in M-BERT, and show an average increase of about 6% F1 on languages that are already in M-BERT and 23% F1 increase on new languages.

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