  We introduce YATO, an open-source, easy-to-use toolkit for text analysis with
deep learning. Different from existing heavily engineered toolkits and
platforms, YATO is lightweight and user-friendly for researchers from
cross-disciplinary areas. Designed in a hierarchical structure, YATO supports
free combinations of three types of widely used features including 1)
traditional neural networks (CNN, RNN, etc.); 2) pre-trained language models
(BERT, RoBERTa, ELECTRA, etc.); and 3) user-customized neural features via a
simple configurable file. Benefiting from the advantages of flexibility and
ease of use, YATO can facilitate fast reproduction and refinement of
state-of-the-art NLP models, and promote the cross-disciplinary applications of
NLP techniques. The code, examples, and documentation are publicly available at
https://github.com/jiesutd/YATO. A demo video is also available at
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ0mhzMcRuDUlTkzBfAftOqiJRxYTTjXH.
