norwegian bert

Quickstart

Release 1.1 (February 13, 2021)

Please check also our newer model: NorBERT 2, trained on a much larger corpus.

Download the model here:

More about NorBERT training corpora and training procedure: http://norlm.nlpl.eu/

Associated code: https://github.com/ltgoslo/NorBERT

Check this paper for more details:

Andrey Kutuzov, Jeremy Barnes, Erik Velldal, Lilja Øvrelid, Stephan Oepen. Large-Scale Contextualised Language Modelling for Norwegian, NoDaLiDa'21 (2021)

NorBERT was trained as a part of NorLM, a joint initiative of the projects EOSC-Nordic (European Open Science Cloud) and SANT (Sentiment Analysis for Norwegian), coordinated by the Language Technology Group (LTG) at the University of Oslo.

The computations were performed on resources provided by UNINETT Sigma2 - the National Infrastructure for High Performance Computing and Data Storage in Norway.

NorBERT-3

In 2023, we released a new family of NorBERT-3 language models for Norwegian. In general, we now recommend using these models:

NorBERT-3 is described in detail in this paper: NorBench – A Benchmark for Norwegian Language Models (Samuel et al., NoDaLiDa 2023)