README.md

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# bert-base-cased-conversational

Conversational BERT \(English, cased, 12‑layer, 768‑hidden, 12‑heads, 110M parameters\) was trained on the English part of Twitter, Reddit, DailyDialogues\[1\], OpenSubtitles\[2\], Debates\[3\], Blogs\[4\], Facebook News Comments. We used this training data to build the vocabulary of English subtokens and took English cased version of BERT‑base as an initialization for English Conversational BERT.


\[1\]: Yanran Li, Hui Su, Xiaoyu Shen, Wenjie Li, Ziqiang Cao, and Shuzi Niu. DailyDialog: A Manually Labelled Multi-turn Dialogue Dataset. IJCNLP 2017.

\[2\]: P. Lison and J. Tiedemann, 2016, OpenSubtitles2016: Extracting Large Parallel Corpora from Movie and TV Subtitles. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation \(LREC 2016\)

\[3\]: Justine Zhang, Ravi Kumar, Sujith Ravi, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil. Proceedings of NAACL, 2016.

\[4\]: J. Schler, M. Koppel, S. Argamon and J. Pennebaker \(2006\). Effects of Age and Gender on Blogging in Proceedings of 2006 AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Approaches for Analyzing Weblogs.