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AfriBERTa-Large (Afrikaans covered indirectly via XLM-R base)

Afrikaans(afr)LM / Encoder (RoBERTa)Trained from scratchXLMRobertaForMaskedLM
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Model Info

Language
Afrikaans (afr)
Architecture
XLMRobertaForMaskedLM
Institution
Kelechi Ogueji et al. — Castorini / UWaterloo
Last Updated
12 May 2026

Intended Use Cases

NER baseline for 11 African langs (no Afrikaans directly)

License & Access

SPDX identifierMIT

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

Provenance

Source URL
https://huggingface.co/castorini/afriberta_large
Fetch Timestamp
12 May 2026
Submitter
Kelechi Ogueji et al. — Castorini / UWaterloo

Full Record

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Registry columns (17/18)

iso code
afr
Model Name
AfriBERTa-Large (Afrikaans covered indirectly via XLM-R base)
Where is it hosted
HuggingFace
Link
https://huggingface.co/castorini/afriberta_large
Year
2021
Creator/Author(s)
Kelechi Ogueji et al. — Castorini / UWaterloo
Paper Reference
Ogueji et al., 2021
NLP Task
LM / Encoder (RoBERTa)
Architecture
XLMRobertaForMaskedLMderivedHugging Face config: architectures / model_type
Base Model
Trained from scratch
Fine-tuned?
No
License
MIT
Open Access
Open
Has Model Card
Yes
SOTA Tasks
NER baseline for 11 African langs (no Afrikaans directly)
Verified By
Not stated
Date Indexed
2026-05-12
Comment
Afrikaans not in AfriBERTa training set; note for accuracy

Readiness (LRS) (3/7)

model id
afriberta-large-afrikaans-covered-indirectly-via-xlm-r-base-afr
Model Type
LLMderivedHugging Face card: pipeline_tag
Training Data Sources
CC-100 + mC4 African subset
Benchmark Used
Not stated
Benchmark Score
Not stated
Benchmark Date
Not stated
Status
Not stated

Readiness Score Breakdown

5/5
Data Coverage100%
Model Availability100%
Benchmarks100%
Documentation80%
Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance
Regional Distribution
Dialect Coverage
Inclusivity
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