A BERT fine-tuned on central bankers and financial institutions' speeches

EconoBert aims at adapting BERT to the specific vocabulary of economics by using central banks speeches as training data. This decision has two motivations:

* Central Banks’ speeches tend to cover a broad range of topics (inflation, financial stability, employment, interest-rate, banking, GDP, crisis…)
* Speeches are delivered frequently making it easy to refresh the model and adapt it to current trends

EconoBERT is a fine-tuned model of the famous “base-bert-uncased” on **12k speeches** from central bankers representing approximately **33,8 …

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