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BERTweet

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BERTweet: A pre-trained language model for English Tweets (EMNLP-2020)

Project last updated:07/22/24

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BERTweet is a RoBERTa-style model pre-trained on roughly 850 million tweets, so it's built for the abbreviations, emoji, and URL-heavy text that standard BERT models tend to choke on. The tokenizer and normalization step are designed for that input, and the repo includes a TweetNormalizer module to get your raw tweets into the right format. You can load the base or large checkpoints through the Hugging Face transformers API and fine-tune them for sentiment analysis, named-entity recognition, part-of-speech tagging, or irony detection. That makes it a practical starting point for social listening, brand monitoring, or any analysis of public conversation.

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