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PhoBERT

bert bert-embeddings deep-learning fairseq language-models named-entity-recognition natural-language-inference ner nli part-of-speech-tagging phobert pos-tagging python3 rdrsegmenter roberta transformers transformers-library vietnamese vietnamese-nlp vncorenlp

PhoBERT: Pre-trained language models for Vietnamese (EMNLP-2020 Findings)

Project last updated:08/04/26

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Why we included this project

PhoBERT gives Vietnamese NLP projects a strong starting point without the cost of pretraining your own model. The base and large encoders follow the RoBERTa recipe and were trained on roughly 20GB of Wikipedia and news text, which at the time set new state-of-the-art results on part-of-speech tagging, dependency parsing, named-entity recognition, and natural language inference. Both sizes load through the Hugging Face transformers library, so fine-tuning takes only a few lines of code. The one thing to plan around is the tokenizer: it expects word-segmented input, so most people pair it with VnCoreNLP's segmenter before feeding in raw text. That makes it a practical fit for Vietnamese classifiers, NER systems, and retrieval embeddings.

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