Bilingual Text Classification in English and Indonesian via Transfer Learning using XLM-RoBERTa

With the large amount of text information circulating on the internet, there is a need of a solution that can help processing data in the form of text for various purposes. In Indonesia, text information circulating on the internet generally uses 2 languages, English and Indonesian. This research focuses in building a model that is able to classify text in more than one language, or also commonly known as multilingual text classification. The multilingual text classification will use the XLM-RoBERTa model in its implementation. This study applied the transfer learning concept used by XLM-RoBERTa to build a classification model for texts in Indonesian using only the English News Dataset as a training dataset with Matthew Correlation Coefficient value of 42.2%. The results of this study also have the highest accuracy value when tested on a large English News Dataset (37,886) with Matthew Correlation Coefficient value of 90.8%, accuracy of 93.3%, precision of 93.4%, recall of 93.3%, and F1 of 93.3% and the accuracy value when tested on a large Indonesian News Dataset (70,304) with Matthew Correlation Coefficient value of 86.4%, accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 values of 90.2% using the large size Mixed News Dataset (108,190) in the model training process. Keywords: Multilingual Text Classification, Natural Language Processing, News Dataset, Transfer Learning, XLM-RoBERTa