| **DarijaBERT** is the first BERT model for the Moroccan Arabic dialect called “Darija”. It is based on the same architecture as BERT-base, but without the Next Sentence Prediction (NSP) objective. This model was trained on a total of ~3 Million sequences of Darija dialect representing 691MB of text or a total of ~100M tokens. | |
| The model was trained on a dataset issued from three different sources: | |
| * Stories written in Darija scrapped from a dedicated website | |
| * Youtube comments from 40 different Moroccan channels | |
| * Tweets crawled based on a list of Darija keywords. | |
| More details about DarijaBert are available in the dedicated GitHub [repository](https://github.com/AIOXLABS/DBert) | |
| **Loading the model** | |
| The model can be loaded directly using the Huggingface library: | |
| ```python | |
| from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel | |
| DBERT_tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Kamel/DarijaBERT") | |
| DBERT_Bert_model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("Kamel/DarijaBERT") | |
| ``` | |
| **Acknowledgments** | |
| We gratefully acknowledge Google’s TensorFlow Research Cloud (TRC) program for providing us with free Cloud TPUs. | |