@inproceedings{dumitrescu-etal-2020-birth,
    title = "The birth of {R}omanian {BERT}",
    author = "Dumitrescu, Stefan  and
      Avram, Andrei-Marius  and
      Pyysalo, Sampo",
    editor = "Cohn, Trevor  and
      He, Yulan  and
      Liu, Yang",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020",
    month = nov,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2020.findings-emnlp.387/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.findings-emnlp.387",
    pages = "4324--4328",
    abstract = "Large-scale pretrained language models have become ubiquitous in Natural Language Processing. However, most of these models are available either in high-resource languages, in particular English, or as multilingual models that compromise performance on individual languages for coverage. This paper introduces Romanian BERT, the first purely Romanian transformer-based language model, pretrained on a large text corpus. We discuss corpus com-position and cleaning, the model training process, as well as an extensive evaluation of the model on various Romanian datasets. We opensource not only the model itself, but also a repository that contains information on how to obtain the corpus, fine-tune and use this model in production (with practical examples), and how to fully replicate the evaluation process."
}