A starting point.
BERT learns representations from text in both directions and then adapts them to language tasks. It helped establish pretraining followed by fine-tuning.
What to keep in mind
Read the original paper for the experimental setting, baselines, and limitations; a result in one setting is not a guarantee of performance elsewhere.
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Source: BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding. The original manuscript contains the methods, experiments, figures, and references. An arXiv posting date may follow an earlier conference publication. Read the linked record for version history.