Bpemb: Tokenization-free Pre-trained Subword Embeddings In 275 Languages
Benjamin Heinzerling, Michael Strube . Arxiv 2017 – 129 citations
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We present BPEmb, a collection of pre-trained subword unit embeddings in 275 languages, based on Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE). In an evaluation using fine-grained entity typing as testbed, BPEmb performs competitively, and for some languages bet- ter than alternative subword approaches, while requiring vastly fewer resources and no tokenization. BPEmb is available at https://github.com/bheinzerling/bpemb