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language:
- af
thumbnail: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVjR6BsWoAAFaq5.jpg
tags:
- af
- fill-mask
- pytorch
- roberta
- lm-head
- masked-lm
license: MIT
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# Takalani Sesame - Salie - Afrikaans 🇿🇦
<img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVjR6BsWoAAFaq5.jpg" width="600"/>
## Model description
Takalani Sesame (named after the South African version of Sesame Street) is a project that aims to promote the use of South African languages in NLP, and in particular look at techniques for low-resource languages to equalise performance with larger languages around the world.
## Intended uses & limitations
#### How to use
```python
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelWithLMHead
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("jannesg/takalane_afr_roberta")
model = AutoModelWithLMHead.from_pretrained("jannesg/takalane_afr_roberta")
```
#### Limitations and bias
Updates will be added continously to improve performance.
## Training data
Data collected from [https://wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de/en](https://wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de/en) <br/>
**Sentences:** 2.8M
## Training procedure
No preprocessing. Standard Huggingface hyperparameters.
## Author
Jannes Germishuys [website](http://jannesgg.github.io)