huggingface has released a Japanese model for BERT. The Japanese model is included in transformers. However, I stumbled over a few things before I could get it to actually work in a Mac environment, so I’ll leave a note. Preliminaries: Installing mecab The morphological analysis engine, mecab, is required to use BERT’s Japanese model. The tokenizer will probably ask for mecab. This time, we will use homebrew to install Mecab
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