---
license: apache-2.0
language:
- sr
metrics:
- accuracy
- wer
library_name: transformers
tags:
- legal
---

# BERTić-COMtext-SR-legal-MSD-ekavica

**BERTić-COMtext-SR-legal-MSD-ekavica** is a variant of the [BERTić](https://huggingface.co/classla/bcms-bertic) model, fine-tuned on the task of morphosyntactic (MSD) tag prediction in Serbian legal texts written in the Ekavian pronunciation. 
The model was fine-tuned for 15 epochs on the Ekavian variant of the [COMtext.SR.legal](https://github.com/ICEF-NLP/COMtext.SR) dataset.

# Benchmarking

This model was evaluated on the tasks of MSD prediction and lemmatization of Serbian legal texts.
Lemmatization was performed using the predicted MSD tags and the [srLex](http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1233) inflectional lexicon.

Accuracy and Word Error Rate were used as evaluation metrics.

This model was compared to:
- The [CLASSLA](http://pypi.org/project/classla/) library
- A variant of [BERTić](https://huggingface.co/classla/bcms-bertic) fine-tuned for MSD prediction using the [SETimes.SR 2.0](http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1843) corpus of newswire texts
- [SrBERTa](http://huggingface.co/nemanjaPetrovic/SrBERTa), a model specially trained on Serbian legal texts

All large language models were fine-tuned for 15 epochs.
CLASSLA and BERTić-SETimes were directly tested on the entire COMtext.SR.legal.ekavica corpus.
BERTić-COMtext-SR-legal-MSD-ekavica and SrBERTa were fine-tuned and evaluated on the COMtext.SR.legal.ekavica corpus using 10-fold CV.

The code and data to run these experiments is available on the [COMtext.SR GitHub repository](https://github.com/ICEF-NLP/COMtext.SR).

## Results

| Model                                                     |  MSD ACC |   MSD WER  | Lemma ACC |  Lemma WER |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | ---------- | --------- | ---------- |
| CLASSLA-SR (gold tokens)                                  |  0.9144  |   0.0856   |  0.9432   |   0.0568   |
| *CLASSLA-SR (CLASSLA tokenizer)*                          |     /    |  *0.0983*  |     /     |  *0.0739*  |
| BERTić-SETimes (gold tokens)                              |  0.9231  |   0.0768   |  0.9649   |   0.0351   |
| *BERTić-SETimes.SR (CLASSLA tokenizer)*                   |     /    |  *0.0884*  |     /     |  *0.0542*  |
| BERTić-COMtext-SR-legal-MSD-ekavica (gold tokens)         |**0.9674**| **0.0326** |**0.9666** | **0.0334** |
| *BERTić-COMtext-SR-legal-MSD-ekavica (CLASSLA tokenizer)* |     /    |***0.0447***|     /     |***0.0526***|
| SrBERTa (gold tokens)                                     |  0.9288  |   0.0712   |  0.9391   |   0.0609   |
| *SrBERTa (CLASSLA tokenizer)*                             |     /    |  *0.0851*  |     /     |  *0.0819*  |