ScandiBERT

Note note: The model has been updated on 2022-09-27

The model was trained on the data shown in the table below. Batch size was 8.8k, the model was trained for 72 epochs on 24 V100 cards for about 2 weeks.

Language	Data	Size
Icelandic	See IceBERT paper	16 GB
Danish	Danish Gigaword Corpus (incl Twitter)	4,7 GB
Norwegian	NCC corpus	42 GB
Swedish	Swedish Gigaword Corpus	3,4 GB
Faroese	FC3 + Sosialurinn + Bible	69 MB

Note: At an earlier date a half trained model went up here, it has since been removed. The model has since been updated.

This is a Scandinavian BERT model trained on a large collection of Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish text. It is currently the highest ranking model on the ScandEval leaderbord https://scandeval.github.io/pretrained/

If you find this model useful, please cite

@inproceedings{snaebjarnarson-etal-2023-transfer,
    title = "{T}ransfer to a Low-Resource Language via Close Relatives: The Case Study on Faroese",
    author = "Snæbjarnarson, Vésteinn  and
      Simonsen, Annika  and
      Glavaš, Goran  and
      Vulić, Ivan",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)",
    month = "may 22--24",
    year = "2023",
    address = "Tórshavn, Faroe Islands",
    publisher = {Link{\"o}ping University Electronic Press, Sweden},
}