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Domain-specific pretraining boosts Transformer performance on Arabic-English code-switching

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A new study published on arXiv explores the impact of domain-specific pretraining on Transformer models for analyzing Arabic-English code-switching. The research evaluated MARBERT and XLM-RoBERTa, with BERT as a baseline, on classifying pragmatic functions in social media discourse. Findings indicate that MARBERT significantly outperformed XLM-RoBERTa, achieving 0.85 Macro F1 compared to XLM-RoBERTa's 0.52 on an independent test set. The study concludes that domain-specific pretraining profile is more crucial for Transformer performance than multilingual coverage alone for specialized pragmatic tasks. AI

IMPACT Highlights the importance of domain-specific pretraining for specialized NLP tasks, potentially guiding future model development for code-switching.

RANK_REASON Academic paper detailing model performance on a specific NLP task. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Domain-specific pretraining boosts Transformer performance on Arabic-English code-switching

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Fahad Al Hussen, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Q. Shormani, Ibb University, Ibb, Yemen ·

    Domain-specific Pretraining Profile and Transformer Performance: Evidence from Modeling Digital Pragmatics in Arabic-English Code-switching

    arXiv:2609.14571v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study highlights the role of domain-specific pretraining profile (DSPP) in Transformer performance for modeling digital pragmatics in Arabic-English code-switched discourse. It evaluates MARBERT and XLM-R(oBERTa), with BERT ser…

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