Arabic Named Entity Recognition

This project is made to enrich the Arabic Named Entity Recognition(ANER). Arabic is a tough language to deal with and has alot of difficulties. We managed to made a model based on Arabert to support 50 entities.

Paper

Here's the paper that contains all the details for our model, our approach, and the training results

ANER Paper

Dataset

Fine-grained Arabic Named Entity Corpora

Evaluation results

The model achieves the following results:

Dataset	WikiFANE Gold	WikiFANE Gold	WikiFANE Gold	NewsFANE Gold	NewsFANE Gold	NewsFANE Gold
(metric)	(Recall)	(Precision)	(F1)	(Recall)	(Precision)	(F1)
	87.0	90.5	88.7	78.1	77.4	77.7

Usage

The model is available on the HuggingFace model page under the name: boda/ANER. Checkpoints are available only in PyTorch at the time.

Use in python:

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForTokenClassification

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("boda/ANER")

model = AutoModelForTokenClassification.from_pretrained("boda/ANER")

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Arabert for providing the Arabic Bert model, which we used as a base model for our work.

We also would like to thank Prof. Fahd Saleh S Alotaibi at the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology King Abdulaziz University, for providing the dataset which we used to train our model with.

Contacts

Abdelrahman Atef