PuoBERTa
VerifiedPuoBERTa is a RoBERTa-based masked language model purpose-built for Setswana, trained on the PuoData corpus by the Data Science for Social Impact group. It ships with example scripts for fill-mask, news classification, NER and POS tagging via HuggingFace Transformers.
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- Free / open-source
- Country
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
- Last verified
- 25 Aug 2026
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