quim-motger/t-frex-bert-base-uncased

T-FREX BERT base model (uncased)

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Please cite this research as:

Q. Motger, A. Miaschi, F. Dell’Orletta, X. Franch, and J. Marco, ‘T-FREX: A Transformer-based Feature Extraction Method from Mobile App Reviews’, in Proceedings of The IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2024. Pre-print available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.03833

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T-FREX is a transformer-based feature extraction method for mobile app reviews based on fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) for a named entity recognition task. We collect a dataset of ground truth features from users in a real crowdsourced software recommendation platform, and we use this dataset to fine-tune multiple LLMs under different data configurations. We assess the performance of T-FREX with respect to this ground truth, and we complement our analysis by comparing T-FREX with a baseline method from the field. Finally, we assess the quality of new features predicted by T-FREX through an external human evaluation. Results show that T-FREX outperforms on average the traditional syntactic-based method, especially when discovering new features from a domain for which the model has been fine-tuned.

Source code for data generation, fine-tuning and model inference are available in the original GitHub repository.

Model description

This version of T-FREX has been fine-tuned for token classification from BERT base model (uncased).

Model variations

T-FREX includes a set of released, fine-tuned models which are compared in the original study (pre-print available at http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.03833).

• t-frex-bert-base-uncased
• t-frex-bert-large-uncased
• t-frex-roberta-base
• t-frex-roberta-large
• t-frex-xlnet-base-cased
• t-frex-xlnet-large-cased

How to use

You can use this model following the instructions for model inference for token classification.