README.md

---
language: tl
tags:
- roberta
- tagalog
- filipino
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
inference: false
---

# RoBERTa Tagalog Base
Tagalog RoBERTa trained as an improvement over our previous Tagalog pretrained Transformers. Trained with TLUnified, a newer, larger, more topically-varied pretraining corpus for Filipino. This model is part of a larger research project. We open-source the model to allow greater usage within the Filipino NLP community.

This model is a cased model. We do not release uncased RoBERTa models. 

## Citations
All model details and training setups can be found in our papers. If you use our model or find it useful in your projects, please cite our work:

```
@article{cruz2021improving,
  title={Improving Large-scale Language Models and Resources for Filipino},
  author={Jan Christian Blaise Cruz and Charibeth Cheng},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.06053},
  year={2021}
}
```

## Data and Other Resources
Data used to train this model as well as other benchmark datasets in Filipino can be found in my website at https://blaisecruz.com

## Contact
If you have questions, concerns, or if you just want to chat about NLP and low-resource languages in general, you may reach me through my work email at me@blaisecruz.com