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+license: "apache-2.0"
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+## CINO: Pre-trained Language Models for Chinese Minority Languages（中国少数民族预训练模型）
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+Multilingual Pre-trained Language Model, such as mBERT, XLM-R, provide multilingual and cross-lingual ability for language understanding.
+We have seen rapid progress on building multilingual PLMs in recent year.
+However, there is a lack of contributions on building PLMs on Chines minority languages, which hinders researchers from building powerful NLP systems.
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+To address the absence of Chinese minority PLMs, Joint Laboratory of HIT and iFLYTEK Research (HFL) proposes CINO (Chinese-miNOrity pre-trained language model), which is built on XLM-R with additional pre-training using Chinese minority corpus, such as 
+- Chinese，中文（zh）
+- Tibetan，藏语（bo）
+- Mongolian (Uighur form)，蒙语（mn）
+- Uyghur，维吾尔语（ug）
+- Kazakh (Arabic form)，哈萨克语（kk）
+- Korean，朝鲜语（ko）
+- Zhuang，壮语
+- Cantonese，粤语（yue）
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+Please read our GitHub repository for more details (Chinese): https://github.com/ymcui/Chinese-Minority-PLM
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+You may also interested in,
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+Chinese MacBERT: https://github.com/ymcui/MacBERT  
+Chinese BERT series: https://github.com/ymcui/Chinese-BERT-wwm  
+Chinese ELECTRA: https://github.com/ymcui/Chinese-ELECTRA  
+Chinese XLNet: https://github.com/ymcui/Chinese-XLNet  
+Knowledge Distillation Toolkit - TextBrewer: https://github.com/airaria/TextBrewer  
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+More resources by HFL: https://github.com/ymcui/HFL-Anthology
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