samirmsallem/distilbert-base-multilingual-cased-definitions_ner

NER model for definition component recognition in German scientific texts

distilbert-base-multilingual-cased-definitions_ner is a NER model (token classification) in the scientific domain in German, finetuned from the model distilbert-base-multilingual-cased. It was trained using a custom annotated dataset of around 10,000 training and 2,000 test examples containing definition- and non-definition-related sentences from wikipedia articles in german.

The model is specifically designed to recognize and classify components of definitions, using the following entity labels:

• DF: Definiendum (the term being defined)
• VF: Definitor (the verb or phrase introducing the definition)
• GF: Definiens (the explanation or meaning)

Training was conducted using a standard NER objective. The model achieves an F1 score of approximately 81% on the evaluation set.

Here are the overall final metrics on the test dataset after 5 epochs of training:

• f1: 0.812455003599712
• precision: 0.8076097328244275
• recall: 0.8173587638821825
• loss: 0.329479843378067

Model Performance Comparision on wiki_definitions_de_multitask:

Model	Precision	Recall	F1 Score	Eval Samples per Second	Epoch
distilbert-base-multilingual-cased-definitions_ner	80.76	81.74	81.25	457.53	5.0
scibert_scivocab_cased-definitions_ner	80.54	82.11	81.32	236.61	4.0
GottBERT_base_best-definitions_ner	82.98	82.81	82.90	272.26	5.0
xlm-roberta-base-definitions_ner	81.90	83.35	82.62	241.21	5.0
gbert-base-definitions_ner	82.73	83.56	83.14	278.87	5.0