---
tags:
  - flair
  - token-classification
  - sequence-tagger-model
language: de
---
# Tagger for literary character mentions (DROC corpus)

This is the character recognizer model that is being used in [LLpro](https://github.com/cophi-wue/LLpro). It detects character mentions in literary fiction: (a) proper nouns ("Alice", "Effi"), and (b) nominal phrases ("Gärtner", "Mutter", "Graf", "Idiot", "Schöne", ...). The model is trained on the [DROC dataset](https://gitlab2.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/kallimachos/DROC-Release), fine-tuning the domain-adapted [lkonle/fiction-gbert-large](https://huggingface.co/lkonle/fiction-gbert-large). ([Training code](https://github.com/cophi-wue/LLpro/blob/main/contrib/train_character_recognizer.py))

F1-Score: **91.85** (on a held-out data split; micro average on B-PER and I-PER labels)


---

**Demo Usage:**

```python
from flair.data import Sentence
from flair.models import SequenceTagger

# load tagger
tagger = SequenceTagger.load("aehrm/droc-character-recognizer")

# make example sentence
sentence = Sentence("Effi folgte Graf Instetten nach Kessin.")

# predict NER tags
tagger.predict(sentence)

# print sentence
print(sentence)
# >>> Sentence[7]: "Effi folgte Graf Instetten nach Kessin." → ["Effi"/PER, "Graf Instetten"/PER]

# print predicted NER spans
print('The following NER tags are found:')
# iterate over entities and print
for entity in sentence.get_spans('character'):
    print(entity)
# >>> Span[0:1]: "Effi" → PER (1.0)
# >>> Span[2:4]: "Graf Instetten" → PER (1.0)
```

**Cite**:

Please cite the following paper when using this model.

```

@inproceedings{ehrmanntraut-et-al-llpro-2023,
	address = {Ingolstadt, Germany},
	title = {{LLpro}: A Literary Language Processing Pipeline for {German} Narrative Text},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Natural Language Processing ({KONVENS} 2022)},
	publisher = {{KONVENS} 2023 Organizers},
	author = {Ehrmanntraut, Anton and Konle, Leonard and Jannidis, Fotis},
	year = {2023},
}

```