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license: cc-by-4.0 |
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datasets: |
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- masakhane/masakhaner2 |
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- dsfsi/PuoData |
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language: |
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- tn |
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metrics: |
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- f1 |
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library_name: transformers |
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pipeline_tag: token-classification |
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tags: |
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- ner |
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- african nlp |
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- africanlp |
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--- |
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# PuoBERTa-NER: A Setswana Langage Model Finetuned on MasakhaNER-2 for Named Entity Recognition. |
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[](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8434795) [](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09141) 🤗 [https://huggingface.co/dsfsi/PuoBERTa](https://huggingface.co/dsfsi/PuoBERTa) |
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A Roberta-based language model finetuned on MasakhaneNER-2 for Named Entity Recognition. |
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Based on [https://huggingface.co/dsfsi/PuoBERTa](https://huggingface.co/dsfsi/PuoBERTa) |
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## Model Details |
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### Model Description |
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This is a POS model trained on Setswana based on PuoBERTa and fineruned on MasakhaNER-2 Setswana. |
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- **Developed by:** Vukosi Marivate ([@vukosi](https://huggingface.co/@vukosi)), Moseli Mots'Oehli ([@MoseliMotsoehli](https://huggingface.co/@MoseliMotsoehli)) , Valencia Wagner, Richard Lastrucci and Isheanesu Dzingirai |
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- **Model type:** RoBERTa Model |
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- **Language(s) (NLP):** Setswana |
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- **License:** CC BY 4.0 |
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### Model Performance |
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Performance of models on the [MasakhaNER-2](https://github.com/masakhane-io/masakhane-ner/tree/main/MasakhaNER2.0) downstream task. |
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| Model | Test Performance (f1 score) | |
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| **Multilingual Models** | | |
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| AfriBERTa | 83.2 | |
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| AfroXLMR-base | 87.7 | |
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| AfroXLMR-large | 89.4 | |
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| **Monolingual Models** | | |
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| NCHLT TSN RoBERTa | 74.2 | |
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| PuoBERTa | **78.2** | |
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| PuoBERTa+JW300 | **80.2** | |
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### Usage |
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Use this model for Part of Speech Tagging for Setswana. |
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```python |
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## Citation Information |
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Bibtex Refrence |
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``` |
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@inproceedings{marivate2023puoberta, |
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title = {PuoBERTa: Training and evaluation of a curated language model for Setswana}, |
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author = {Vukosi Marivate and Moseli Mots'Oehli and Valencia Wagner and Richard Lastrucci and Isheanesu Dzingirai}, |
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year = {2023}, |
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booktitle= {Artificial Intelligence Research. SACAIR 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science}, |
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url= {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-49002-6_17}, |
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keywords = {NLP}, |
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preprint_url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09141}, |
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dataset_url = {https://github.com/dsfsi/PuoBERTa}, |
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software_url = {https://huggingface.co/dsfsi/PuoBERTa} |
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} |
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``` |
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## Contributing |
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Your contributions are welcome! Feel free to improve the model. |
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## Model Card Authors |
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Vukosi Marivate |
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## Model Card Contact |
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For more details, reach out or check our [website](https://dsfsi.github.io/). |
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Email: vukosi.marivate@cs.up.ac.za |
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**Enjoy exploring Setswana through AI!** |
