AfriBERTa: Exploring the Viability of Pretrained Multilingual Language Models for Low-resourced Languages

Overview

AfriBERTa: Exploring the Viability of Pretrained Multilingual Language Models for Low-resourced Languages

This repository contains the code for the paper Small Data? No Problem! Exploring the Viability of Pretrained Multilingual Language Models for Low-resourced Languages which appears in the first workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning at EMNLP 2021.

AfriBERTa was trained on 11 languages - Afaan Oromoo (also called Oromo), Amharic, Gahuza (a mixed language containing Kinyarwanda and Kirundi), Hausa, Igbo, Nigerian Pidgin, Somali, Swahili, Tigrinya and Yorùbá. AfriBERTa was evaluated on NER and text classification spanning 10 languages (some of which it was not pretrained on). It outperformed mBERT and XLM-R on several languages and is very competitive overall.

Pretrained models

We release the following pretrained models:

Reproducing Experiments

Datasets and Tokenizer

Below are details on how to obtain the datasets and trained sentencepiece tokenizer:

Language Modelling: The data for language modelling can be downloaded from this URL

NER: To obtain the NER dataset, please download it from this repository

Text Classification: To obtain the topic classification dataset, please download it from this repository

Tokenizer: The trained sentencepiece tokenizer can be downloaded from this URL

Training

To train AfriBERTa and evaluate on both downstream tasks, simply install all requirements in requirements.txt, download the relevant datasets and run the following script:

bash run_all.sh

This script will:

  1. Train the multilingual language model from scratch and save the model as well as relevant logs
  2. Evaluate the trained language model on NER for all ten languages over 5 seeds
  3. Evaluate the trained language model on text classification for all two languages over 5 seeds

Citation

@inproceedings{ogueji-etal-2021-small,
    title = "Small Data? No Problem! Exploring the Viability of Pretrained Multilingual Language Models for Low-resourced Languages",
    author = "Ogueji, Kelechi  and
      Zhu, Yuxin  and
      Lin, Jimmy",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning",
    month = nov,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Punta Cana, Dominican Republic",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.mrl-1.11",
    pages = "116--126",
}
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