RobeCzech Base Model
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Parameter Count | 126M |
| Model Type | Fill-Mask |
| Architecture | RoBERTa |
| License | cc-by-nc-sa-4.0 |
| Paper | arXiv:2105.11314 |
What is robeczech-base?
RobeCzech is a monolingual contextual language representation model specifically designed for the Czech language. Developed by the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics at Charles University, Prague, it represents a significant advancement in Czech natural language processing. The model is built on the RoBERTa architecture and trained on a diverse collection of Czech texts totaling 4,917M tokens.
Implementation Details
The model employs a byte-level BPE tokenizer with a vocabulary size of 52,000 items. Training was conducted using 8 QUADRO P5000 GPUs over approximately 3 months, utilizing the Fairseq implementation. The model processes text in batches of 8,192 tokens, with each sample limited to 512 tokens maximum length.
- Trained on multiple Czech corpora including SYN v4, Czes, web corpus W2C, and Czech Wikipedia
- Uses Adam optimizer with β1 = 0.9 and β2 = 0.98
- Implements FULL-SENTENCES setting for contiguous sampling
Core Capabilities
- Morphological tagging and lemmatization (98.50% accuracy on PDT3.5)
- Dependency parsing (91.42% LAS score)
- Named entity recognition (87.82% on nested entities)
- Semantic parsing (92.36% average performance)
- Sentiment analysis through fine-tuning
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What makes this model unique?
RobeCzech is specifically optimized for Czech language processing, trained on a comprehensive collection of Czech texts, making it particularly effective for Czech-specific NLP tasks. Its architecture and training approach have been carefully designed to capture the complexities of Czech morphology and syntax.
Q: What are the recommended use cases?
The model excels in various NLP tasks, both with frozen embeddings (morphological analysis, dependency parsing, NER) and fine-tuning approaches (semantic parsing, sentiment analysis). It's particularly suitable for applications requiring deep understanding of Czech language structure and semantics.
