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GroNLP/bert-base-dutch-cased

We present BERTje, a Dutch pre-trained BERT model developed at the University of Groningen. BERTje achieved state-of-the-art results on several NLP tasks such as named entity recognition and part-of-speech tagging. We also provide a detailed comparison of BERTje with other pre-trained models such as mBERT and RobBERT.

We present BERTje, a Dutch pre-trained BERT model developed at the University of Groningen. BERTje achieved state-of-the-art results on several NLP tasks such as named entity recognition and part-of-speech tagging. We also provide a detailed comparison of BERTje with other pre-trained models such as mBERT and RobBERT.

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Input

text prompt, should include exactly one [MASK] token

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Output

where is my father? (0.09)

where is my mother? (0.08)

BERTje: A Dutch BERT model

Wietse de VriesAndreas van CranenburghArianna BisazzaTommaso CaselliGertjan van NoordMalvina Nissim

Model description

BERTje is a Dutch pre-trained BERT model developed at the University of Groningen.

For details, check out our paper on arXiv, the code on Github and related work on Semantic Scholar.

The paper and Github page mention fine-tuned models that are available here.

Benchmarks

The arXiv paper lists benchmarks. Here are a couple of comparisons between BERTje, multilingual BERT, BERT-NL and RobBERT that were done after writing the paper. Unlike some other comparisons, the fine-tuning procedures for these benchmarks are identical for each pre-trained model. You may be able to achieve higher scores for individual models by optimizing fine-tuning procedures.

More experimental results will be added to this page when they are finished. Technical details about how a fine-tuned these models will be published later as well as downloadable fine-tuned checkpoints.

All of the tested models are base sized (12) layers with cased tokenization.

Headers in the tables below link to original data sources. Scores link to the model pages that corresponds to that specific fine-tuned model. These tables will be updated when more simple fine-tuned models are made available.

Named Entity Recognition

ModelCoNLL-2002SoNaR-1spaCy UD LassySmall
BERTje90.2484.9386.10
mBERT88.6184.1986.77
BERT-NL85.0580.4581.62
RobBERT84.7281.9879.84

Part-of-speech tagging

ModelUDv2.5 LassySmall
BERTje96.48
mBERT96.20
BERT-NL96.10
RobBERT95.91

BibTeX entry and citation info

@misc{devries2019bertje,
\ttitle = {{BERTje}: {A} {Dutch} {BERT} {Model}},
\tshorttitle = {{BERTje}},
\tauthor = {de Vries, Wietse  and  van Cranenburgh, Andreas  and  Bisazza, Arianna  and  Caselli, Tommaso  and  Noord, Gertjan van  and  Nissim, Malvina},
\tyear = {2019},
\tmonth = dec,
\thowpublished = {arXiv:1912.09582},
\turl = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1912.09582},
}