Fine-tuned Flair Model on LeTemps French NER Dataset (HIPE-2022)

This Flair model was fine-tuned on the LeTemps French NER Dataset using hmBERT as backbone LM.

The LeTemps dataset consists of NE-annotated historical French newspaper articles from mid-19C to mid 20C.

The following NEs were annotated: loc, org and pers.

Results

We performed a hyper-parameter search over the following parameters with 5 different seeds per configuration:

And report micro F1-score on development set:

Configuration	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Run 5	Avg.
bs8-e10-lr3e-05	0.6585	0.6464	0.6532	0.6589	0.6493	65.33 ± 0.49
bs4-e10-lr3e-05	0.6482	0.6361	0.653	0.6624	0.65	64.99 ± 0.85
bs8-e10-lr5e-05	0.6525	0.6448	0.6492	0.6467	0.6438	64.74 ± 0.31
bs4-e10-lr5e-05	0.6403	0.6292	0.642	0.6432	0.6386	63.87 ± 0.5

The training log and TensorBoard logs (only for hmByT5 and hmTEAMS based models) are also uploaded to the model hub.

More information about fine-tuning can be found here.

We thank Luisa März, Katharina Schmid and Erion Çano for their fruitful discussions about Historic Language Models.

Research supported with Cloud TPUs from Google's TPU Research Cloud (TRC). Many Thanks for providing access to the TPUs ❤️