Large-Scale Contextualised Language Modelling for Norwegian

Andrey Kutuzov, Jeremy Barnes, Erik Velldal, Lilja Øvrelid, Stephan Oepen


Abstract
We present the ongoing NorLM initiative to support the creation and use of very large contextualised language models for Norwegian (and in principle other Nordic languages), including a ready-to-use software environment, as well as an experience report for data preparation and training. This paper introduces the first large-scale monolingual language models for Norwegian, based on both the ELMo and BERT frameworks. In addition to detailing the training process, we present contrastive benchmark results on a suite of NLP tasks for Norwegian. For additional background and access to the data, models, and software, please see: http://norlm.nlpl.eu
Anthology ID:
2021.nodalida-main.4
Volume:
Proceedings of the 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)
Month:
May 31--2 June
Year:
2021
Address:
Reykjavik, Iceland (Online)
Editors:
Simon Dobnik, Lilja Øvrelid
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NoDaLiDa
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Linköping University Electronic Press, Sweden
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Pages:
30–40
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.nodalida-main.4
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Andrey Kutuzov, Jeremy Barnes, Erik Velldal, Lilja Øvrelid, and Stephan Oepen. 2021. Large-Scale Contextualised Language Modelling for Norwegian. In Proceedings of the 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa), pages 30–40, Reykjavik, Iceland (Online). Linköping University Electronic Press, Sweden.
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Large-Scale Contextualised Language Modelling for Norwegian (Kutuzov et al., NoDaLiDa 2021)
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.nodalida-main.4.pdf
Code
 ltgoslo/NorBERT +  additional community code
Data
NorNE