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language: fa
license: apache-2.0
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## ParsBERT: Transformer-based Model for Persian Language Understanding
ParsBERT is a monolingual language model based on Google’s BERT architecture with the same configurations as BERT-Base.
Paper presenting ParsBERT: [arXiv:2005.12515](https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12515)
All the models (downstream tasks) are uncased and trained with whole word masking. (coming soon stay tuned)
## Persian NER [ARMAN, PEYMA, ARMAN+PEYMA]
This task aims to extract named entities in the text, such as names and label with appropriate `NER` classes such as locations, organizations, etc. The datasets used for this task contain sentences that are marked with `IOB` format. In this format, tokens that are not part of an entity are tagged as `”O”` the `”B”`tag corresponds to the first word of an object, and the `”I”` tag corresponds to the rest of the terms of the same entity. Both `”B”` and `”I”` tags are followed by a hyphen (or underscore), followed by the entity category. Therefore, the NER task is a multi-class token classification problem that labels the tokens upon being fed a raw text. There are two primary datasets used in Persian NER, `ARMAN`, and `PEYMA`. In ParsBERT, we prepared ner for both datasets as well as a combination of both datasets.
### PEYMA
PEYMA dataset includes 7,145 sentences with a total of 302,530 tokens from which 41,148 tokens are tagged with seven different classes.
1. Organization
2. Money
3. Location
4. Date
5. Time
6. Person
7. Percent
| Label | # |
|:------------:|:-----:|
| Organization | 16964 |
| Money | 2037 |
| Location | 8782 |
| Date | 4259 |
| Time | 732 |
| Person | 7675 |
| Percent | 699 |
**Download**
You can download the dataset from [here](http://nsurl.org/tasks/task-7-named-entity-recognition-ner-for-farsi/)
## Results
The following table summarizes the F1 score obtained by ParsBERT as compared to other models and architectures.
| Dataset | ParsBERT | MorphoBERT | Beheshti-NER | LSTM-CRF | Rule-Based CRF | BiLSTM-CRF |
|---------|----------|------------|--------------|----------|----------------|------------|
| PEYMA | 98.79* | - | 90.59 | - | 84.00 | - |
## How to use :hugs:
| Notebook | Description | |
|:----------|:-------------|------:|
| [How to use Pipelines](https://github.com/hooshvare/parsbert-ner/blob/master/persian-ner-pipeline.ipynb) | Simple and efficient way to use State-of-the-Art models on downstream tasks through transformers | [![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/hooshvare/parsbert-ner/blob/master/persian-ner-pipeline.ipynb) |
## Cite
Please cite the following paper in your publication if you are using [ParsBERT](https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12515) in your research:
```markdown
@article{ParsBERT,
title={ParsBERT: Transformer-based Model for Persian Language Understanding},
author={Mehrdad Farahani, Mohammad Gharachorloo, Marzieh Farahani, Mohammad Manthouri},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2020},
volume={abs/2005.12515}
}
```
## Acknowledgments
We hereby, express our gratitude to the [Tensorflow Research Cloud (TFRC) program](https://tensorflow.org/tfrc) for providing us with the necessary computation resources. We also thank [Hooshvare](https://hooshvare.com) Research Group for facilitating dataset gathering and scraping online text resources.
## Contributors
- Mehrdad Farahani: [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/m3hrdadfi/), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/m3hrdadfi), [Github](https://github.com/m3hrdadfi)
- Mohammad Gharachorloo: [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammad-gharachorloo/), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/MGharachorloo), [Github](https://github.com/baarsaam)
- Marzieh Farahani: [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marziehphi/), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/marziehphi), [Github](https://github.com/marziehphi)
- Mohammad Manthouri: [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammad-manthouri-aka-mansouri-07030766/), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/mmanthouri), [Github](https://github.com/mmanthouri)
- Hooshvare Team: [Official Website](https://hooshvare.com/), [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hooshvare), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/hooshvare), [Github](https://github.com/hooshvare), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/hooshvare/)
+ And a special thanks to Sara Tabrizi for her fantastic poster design. Follow her on: [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-tabrizi-64548b79/), [Behance](https://www.behance.net/saratabrizi), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/sara_b_tabrizi/)
## Releases
### Release v0.1 (May 29, 2019)
This is the first version of our ParsBERT NER!