---
language: ar
widget:
 - text: " عاصمة لبنان هي [MASK] ."
---
# arabert_c19: An Arabert model pretrained on 1.5 million COVID-19 Arabic multi-dialect tweets 
**ARABERT COVID-19** is a pretrained (fine-tuned) version of the AraBERT v2 model (https://huggingface.co/aubmindlab/bert-base-arabertv02). The pretraining was done using 1.5 million multi-dialect Arabic tweets regarding the COVID-19 pandemic from the “Large Arabic Twitter Dataset on COVID-19” (https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04315).
The model can achieve better results for the tasks that deal with multi-dialect Arabic tweets in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. 


# Preprocessing

```python
from arabert.preprocess import ArabertPreprocessor
model_name="moha/arabert_c19"
arabert_prep = ArabertPreprocessor(model_name=model_name)
text = "للوقايه من عدم انتشار كورونا عليك اولا غسل اليدين بالماء والصابون وتكون عملية الغسل دقيقه تشمل راحة اليد الأصابع التركيز على الإبهام"
arabert_prep.preprocess(text)
```


# Contacts
**Hadj Ameur**: [Github](https://github.com/MohamedHadjAmeur) | <mohamedhadjameur@gmail.com> | <mhadjameur@cerist.dz>