README.md

---
language: pt
license: mit
tags:
  - bert
  - bertimbau
  - pytorch
datasets:
  - brWaC
---

# BERTimbau Base (aka "bert-base-portuguese-cased")

![Bert holding a berimbau](https://imgur.com/JZ7Hynh.jpg)


## Introduction

BERTimbau Base is a pretrained BERT model for Brazilian Portuguese that achieves state-of-the-art performances on three downstream NLP tasks: Named Entity Recognition, Sentence Textual Similarity and Recognizing Textual Entailment. It is available in two sizes: Base and Large.

This is a converted version of the original model using [ONNX](https://onnx.ai/).

For further information or requests, please go to [BERTimbau repository](https://github.com/neuralmind-ai/portuguese-bert/).