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license: apache-2.0
language:
- lv
---

# Latvian BERT base model (cased)

A pretrained model on the Latvian language using a masked language modeling (MLM) objective. 
It was introduced in [this paper](http://ebooks.iospress.nl/volumearticle/55531) and first released via the [CLARIN-LV repository](http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12574/43).

This model is case-sensitive. It is primarily intended to be fine-tuned on downstream natural language understanding (NLU) tasks.

Developed at [AiLab.lv](https://ailab.lv)

### BibTeX entry and citation info

Please cite this paper if you use `lvbert':

```bibtex
@inproceedings{Znotins-Barzdins:2020:BalticHLT,
  author = {Arturs Znotins and Guntis Barzdins},
  title = {{LVBERT: Transformer-Based Model for Latvian Language Understanding}},
  booktitle = {Human Language Technologies - The Baltic Perspective},
  series = {Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications},
  volume = {328},
  publisher = {IOS Press},
  year = {2020},
  pages = {111-115},
  doi = {10.3233/FAIA200610},
  url = {http://ebooks.iospress.nl/volumearticle/55531}
}
```