Spanish Language Models.
Asier Gutiérrez-Fandiño, Jordi Armengol-Estapé, Marc Pàmies, Joan Llop-Palao, Joaquín Silveira-Ocampo, Casimiro Pio Carrino, Aitor González-Agirre, Carme Armentano-Oller, Carlos Gerardo Rodriguez-Penagos, Marta Villegas · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021
This paper presents the Spanish RoBERTa-base and RoBERTa-large models, as well as the corresponding performance evaluations. Both models were pre-trained using the largest Spanish corpus known to date, with a total of 570GB of clean and deduplicated text processed for this work, compiled from the web crawlings performed by the National Library of Spain from 2009 to 2019. We extended the current evaluation datasets with an extractive Question Answering dataset and our models outperform the existing Spanish models across tasks and settings.