BERTweet: A pre-trained language model for English Tweets

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We present BERTweet, the first public large-scale pre-trained language model for English Tweets.

• Our BERTweet, having the same architecture as BERT-base (Devlin et al., 2019), is trained using the RoBERTa pre-training procedure (Liu et al., 2019).
• Experiments show that BERTweet outperforms strong baselines RoBERTa-base and XLM-R-base (Conneau et al., 2020), producing better performance results than the previous state-of-the-art models on three Tweet NLP tasks: Part-of-speech tagging, Named-entity recognition and text classification.
• We release BERTweet under the MIT License to facilitate future research and applications on Tweet data.