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---
tags:
- flair
- token-classification
- sequence-tagger-model
language: da
datasets:
- DaNE
widget:
- text: "Jens Peter Hansen kommer fra Danmark"
---
# Danish NER in Flair (default model)
This is the standard 4-class NER model for Danish that ships with [Flair](https://github.com/flairNLP/flair/).
F1-Score: **81.78** (DaNER)
Predicts 4 tags:
| **tag** | **meaning** |
|---------------------------------|-----------|
| PER | person name |
| LOC | location name |
| ORG | organization name |
| MISC | other name |
Based on Transformer embeddings and LSTM-CRF.
---
# Demo: How to use in Flair
Requires: **[Flair](https://github.com/flairNLP/flair/)** (`pip install flair`)
```python
from flair.data import Sentence
from flair.models import SequenceTagger
# load tagger
tagger = SequenceTagger.load("flair/ner-danish")
# make example sentence
sentence = Sentence("Jens Peter Hansen kommer fra Danmark")
# predict NER tags
tagger.predict(sentence)
# print sentence
print(sentence)
# print predicted NER spans
print('The following NER tags are found:')
# iterate over entities and print
for entity in sentence.get_spans('ner'):
print(entity)
```
This yields the following output:
```
Span [1,2,3]: "Jens Peter Hansen" [− Labels: PER (0.9961)]
Span [6]: "Danmark" [− Labels: LOC (0.9816)]
```
So, the entities "*Jens Peter Hansen*" (labeled as a **person**) and "*Danmark*" (labeled as a **location**) are found in the sentence "*Jens Peter Hansen kommer fra Danmark*".
---
### Training: Script to train this model
The model was trained by the [DaNLP project](https://github.com/alexandrainst/danlp) using the [DaNE corpus](https://github.com/alexandrainst/danlp/blob/master/docs/docs/datasets.md#danish-dependency-treebank-dane-dane). Check their repo for more information.
The following Flair script may be used to train such a model:
```python
from flair.data import Corpus
from flair.datasets import DANE
from flair.embeddings import WordEmbeddings, StackedEmbeddings, FlairEmbeddings
# 1. get the corpus
corpus: Corpus = DANE()
# 2. what tag do we want to predict?
tag_type = 'ner'
# 3. make the tag dictionary from the corpus
tag_dictionary = corpus.make_tag_dictionary(tag_type=tag_type)
# 4. initialize each embedding we use
embedding_types = [
# GloVe embeddings
WordEmbeddings('da'),
# contextual string embeddings, forward
FlairEmbeddings('da-forward'),
# contextual string embeddings, backward
FlairEmbeddings('da-backward'),
]
# embedding stack consists of Flair and GloVe embeddings
embeddings = StackedEmbeddings(embeddings=embedding_types)
# 5. initialize sequence tagger
from flair.models import SequenceTagger
tagger = SequenceTagger(hidden_size=256,
embeddings=embeddings,
tag_dictionary=tag_dictionary,
tag_type=tag_type)
# 6. initialize trainer
from flair.trainers import ModelTrainer
trainer = ModelTrainer(tagger, corpus)
# 7. run training
trainer.train('resources/taggers/ner-danish',
train_with_dev=True,
max_epochs=150)
```
---
### Cite
Please cite the following papers when using this model.
```
@inproceedings{akbik-etal-2019-flair,
title = "{FLAIR}: An Easy-to-Use Framework for State-of-the-Art {NLP}",
author = "Akbik, Alan and
Bergmann, Tanja and
Blythe, Duncan and
Rasul, Kashif and
Schweter, Stefan and
Vollgraf, Roland",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North {A}merican Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Demonstrations)",
year = "2019",
url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N19-4010",
pages = "54--59",
}
```
And check the [DaNLP project](https://github.com/alexandrainst/danlp) for more information.
---
### Issues?
The Flair issue tracker is available [here](https://github.com/flairNLP/flair/issues/).