# The Catalan Language CLUB

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.01894 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.01894/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 5 of its 7 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 3 Dec 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 5 of 5)

- [GLUE: A Multi-Task Benchmark and Analysis Platform for Natural Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.07461/) (2018)
- [DistilBERT, a distilled version of BERT: smaller, faster, cheaper and lighter](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.01108/) (2019)
- [SQuAD: 100,000+ Questions for Machine Comprehension of Text](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1606.05250/) (2016)
- [HuggingFace's Transformers: State-of-the-art Natural Language Processing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.03771/) (2019)
- [Are Multilingual Models the Best Choice for Moderately Under-resourced Languages? A Comprehensive Assessment for Catalan](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.07903/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [bgGLUE: A Bulgarian General Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.02349/) (2023)
- [skLEP: A Slovak General Language Understanding Benchmark](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.21508/) (2025)
- [MrBERT: Modern Multilingual Encoders via Vocabulary, Domain, and Dimensional Adaptation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.21379/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The Catalan Language Understanding Benchmark (CLUB) encompasses various datasets representative of different NLU tasks that enable accurate evaluations of language models, following the General Language Understanding Evaluation (GLUE) example. It is part of AINA and PlanTL, two public funding initiatives to empower the Catalan language in the Artificial Intelligence era.