BERT Multilingual Polish Question-Answering Model
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Base Architecture | BERT Multilingual Cased |
| Parameters | 110M |
| Training Data | 39.5K Polish QA pairs |
| Performance | 60.67% EM, 71.89% F1 |
What is bert-base-multilingual-cased-finetuned-polish-squad1?
This model is a specialized adaptation of Google's multilingual BERT, fine-tuned specifically for Polish question-answering tasks. Built on the foundation of a 12-layer, 768-hidden, 12-heads architecture, it has been optimized using a machine-translated version of the SQuAD1.1 dataset to provide accurate question-answering capabilities in Polish.
Implementation Details
The model leverages a comprehensive training approach using machine-translated SQuAD1.1 data, resulting in 39.5K training examples and 2.6K development examples. Training was conducted on a Tesla V100 GPU, with specific configurations for sequence length (384) and document stride (128).
- Pre-trained on 104 languages with largest Wikipedias
- Fine-tuned specifically for Polish QA tasks
- Achieves competitive performance against other Slavic models
Core Capabilities
- Extractive question answering in Polish
- Handles context-based queries with high accuracy
- Supports integration via HuggingFace pipelines
- Provides confidence scores for answers
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What makes this model unique?
This model combines the power of multilingual BERT with specific Polish language optimization, achieving state-of-the-art performance (71.89% F1 score) for Polish question-answering tasks, surpassing both specialized Polish models and other multilingual alternatives.
Q: What are the recommended use cases?
The model is ideal for Polish language applications requiring extractive question answering capabilities, such as automated customer service, information retrieval systems, and educational tools. It's particularly effective for scenarios where precise answer extraction from Polish text is needed.
