Occupational CANINE: HISCO Classification Model

Overview

OccCANINE is a version of CANINE which has been finetuned to automatically convert occupational descriptions into standardized HISCO codes using a CANINE model. This tool facilitates historical occupational data analysis with over 90% accuracy across 13 languages.

See more on: GitHub.com/christianvedels/OccCANINE

Read the paper on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13604

Key Features

High Accuracy: Over 90% accuracy, recall, and precision.
Multilingual Support: Trained on 14 million description-HISCO code pairs across 13 languages.
Efficiency: Rapidly processes descriptions into HISCO codes.

Contribution and Support

Developed at the University of Southern Denmark by Christian Møller Dahl, Torben Johansen and Christian Vedel with contributions from various sources.