Training Flair embeddings on the world's smallest language
The Flair package provides a simple, straightforward API for training Flair embeddings. The process involves all the necessary steps required to train any language model. The steps include the following:
- Preparing the dictionary
- Preparing the corpus
- Defining the language model
- Training the language model
Let's cover the process of training Flair embeddings through a practical hands-on exercise.
Training embedding for most languages is not a quick process. A decent GPU-equipped machine would require over a week of training time to produce results comparable to the state-of-the-art published Flair results in English or similar languages. Most pre-trained Flair embeddings, such as the en English embeddings model, produce embeddings of length 2,048.
Part of the reason why we need 2,048 dimensional vectors is that languages such as English have a huge number of words in the dictionary,...