CINO: A Chinese Minority Pre-trained Language Model
Ziqing Yang, Zihang Xu, Yiming Cui, Baoxin Wang, Min Lin, Dayong Wu, Zhigang Chen
Abstract
Multilingual pre-trained language models have shown impressive performance on cross-lingual tasks. It greatly facilitates the applications of natural language processing on low-resource languages. However, there are still some languages that the current multilingual models do not perform well on. In this paper, we propose CINO (Chinese Minority Pre-trained Language Model), a multilingual pre-trained language model for Chinese minority languages. It covers Standard Chinese, Yue Chinese, and six other ethnic minority languages. To evaluate the cross-lingual ability of the multilingual model on ethnic minority languages, we collect documents from Wikipedia and news websites, and construct two text classification datasets, WCM (Wiki-Chinese-Minority) and CMNews (Chinese-Minority-News). We show that CINO notably outperforms the baselines on various classification tasks. The CINO model and the datasets are publicly available at http://cino.hfl-rc.com.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.coling-1.346
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- October
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na
- Venue:
- COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- International Committee on Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3937–3949
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.346
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Ziqing Yang, Zihang Xu, Yiming Cui, Baoxin Wang, Min Lin, Dayong Wu, and Zhigang Chen. 2022. CINO: A Chinese Minority Pre-trained Language Model. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 3937–3949, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- CINO: A Chinese Minority Pre-trained Language Model (Yang et al., COLING 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-bitext-workshop/2022.coling-1.346.pdf
- Data
- CC100, KLUE