BERTweet

Overview

The BERTweet model was proposed in BERTweet: A pre-trained language model for English Tweets by Dat Quoc Nguyen, Thanh Vu, Anh Tuan Nguyen.

The abstract from the paper is the following:

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.

Example of use:

>>> import torch
>>> from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer 

>>> bertweet = AutoModel.from_pretrained("vinai/bertweet-base")

>>> # For transformers v4.x+: 
>>> tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("vinai/bertweet-base", use_fast=False)

>>> # For transformers v3.x: 
>>> # tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("vinai/bertweet-base")

>>> # INPUT TWEET IS ALREADY NORMALIZED!
>>> line = "SC has first two presumptive cases of coronavirus , DHEC confirms HTTPURL via @USER :cry:"

>>> input_ids = torch.tensor([tokenizer.encode(line)])

>>> with torch.no_grad():
...     features = bertweet(input_ids)  # Models outputs are now tuples

>>> # With TensorFlow 2.0+:
>>> # from transformers import TFAutoModel
>>> # bertweet = TFAutoModel.from_pretrained("vinai/bertweet-base")

This model was contributed by dqnguyen. The original code can be found here.

BertweetTokenizer

class transformers.BertweetTokenizer < >

( vocab_file merges_file normalization = False bos_token = '<s>' eos_token = '</s>' sep_token = '</s>' cls_token = '<s>' unk_token = '<unk>' pad_token = '<pad>' mask_token = '<mask>' **kwargs )

Parameters

  • vocab_file (str) — Path to the vocabulary file.
  • merges_file (str) — Path to the merges file.
  • normalization (bool, optional, defaults to False) — Whether or not to apply a normalization preprocess.
  • bos_token (str, optional, defaults to "<s>") — The beginning of sequence token that was used during pretraining. Can be used a sequence classifier token.

Constructs a BERTweet tokenizer, using Byte-Pair-Encoding.

This tokenizer inherits from PreTrainedTokenizer which contains most of the main methods. Users should refer to this superclass for more information regarding those methods.

add_from_file < >

( f )

Loads a pre-existing dictionary from a text file and adds its symbols to this instance.

build_inputs_with_special_tokens < >

( token_ids_0: typing.List[int] token_ids_1: typing.Optional[typing.List[int]] = None ) List[int]

Parameters

  • token_ids_0 (List[int]) — List of IDs to which the special tokens will be added.
  • token_ids_1 (List[int], optional) — Optional second list of IDs for sequence pairs.

Returns

List[int]

List of input IDs with the appropriate special tokens.

Build model inputs from a sequence or a pair of sequence for sequence classification tasks by concatenating and adding special tokens. A BERTweet sequence has the following format:

convert_tokens_to_string < >

( tokens )

Converts a sequence of tokens (string) in a single string.

create_token_type_ids_from_sequences < >

( token_ids_0: typing.List[int] token_ids_1: typing.Optional[typing.List[int]] = None ) List[int]

Parameters

  • token_ids_0 (List[int]) — List of IDs.
  • token_ids_1 (List[int], optional) — Optional second list of IDs for sequence pairs.

Returns

List[int]

List of zeros.

Create a mask from the two sequences passed to be used in a sequence-pair classification task. BERTweet does not make use of token type ids, therefore a list of zeros is returned.

get_special_tokens_mask < >

( token_ids_0: typing.List[int] token_ids_1: typing.Optional[typing.List[int]] = None already_has_special_tokens: bool = False ) List[int]

Parameters

  • token_ids_0 (List[int]) — List of IDs.
  • token_ids_1 (List[int], optional) — Optional second list of IDs for sequence pairs.
  • already_has_special_tokens (bool, optional, defaults to False) — Whether or not the token list is already formatted with special tokens for the model.

Returns

List[int]

A list of integers in the range [0, 1]: 1 for a special token, 0 for a sequence token.

Retrieve sequence ids from a token list that has no special tokens added. This method is called when adding special tokens using the tokenizer prepare_for_model method.

normalizeToken < >

( token )

Normalize tokens in a Tweet

normalizeTweet < >

( tweet )

Normalize a raw Tweet