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| Challenge: | Neural language models excel in many tasks in NLP but are limited to smaller languages. |
| Approach: | They propose two approaches to pretrain large language models for Finnish . they train seven monolingual models from scratch and use Finnish as pretraining data . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is based on a dataset of Finnish web crawls, news, social media and eBooks. |
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