Arabic NER Model using Flair Embeddings

Training was conducted over 94 epochs, using a linear decaying learning rate of 2e-05, starting from 0.225 and a batch size of 32 with GloVe and Flair forward and backward embeddings.

Original Datasets:

Results:

  • F1-score (micro) 0.8666
  • F1-score (macro) 0.8488
Named Entity Type True Posititves False Positives False Negatives Precision Recall class-F1
LOC Location 539 51 68 0.9136 0.8880 0.9006
MISC Miscellaneous 408 57 89 0.8774 0.8209 0.8482
ORG Organisation 167 43 64 0.7952 0.7229 0.7574
PER Person (no title) 501 65 60 0.8852 0.8930 0.8891

Usage

from flair.data import Sentence
from flair.models import SequenceTagger
import pyarabic.araby as araby
from icecream import ic

tagger = SequenceTagger.load("julien-c/flair-ner")
arTagger = SequenceTagger.load('megantosh/flair-arabic-multi-ner')

sentence = Sentence('George Washington went to Washington .')
arSentence = Sentence('عمرو عادلي أستاذ للاقتصاد السياسي المساعد في الجامعة الأمريكية  بالقاهرة .')


# predict NER tags
tagger.predict(sentence)
arTagger.predict(arSentence)

# print sentence with predicted tags
ic(sentence.to_tagged_string)
ic(arSentence.to_tagged_string)

Example

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ic| sentence.to_tagged_string: <bound method Sentence.to_tagged_string of Sentence: "George Washington went to Washington ."   [− Tokens: 6  − Token-Labels: "George <B-PER> Washington <E-PER> went to Washington <S-LOC> ."]>
ic| arSentence.to_tagged_string: <bound method Sentence.to_tagged_string of Sentence: "عمرو عادلي أستاذ للاقتصاد السياسي المساعد في الجامعة الأمريكية بالقاهرة ."   [− Tokens: 11  − Token-Labels: "عمرو <B-PER> عادلي <I-PER> أستاذ للاقتصاد السياسي المساعد في الجامعة <B-ORG> الأمريكية <I-ORG> بالقاهرة <B-LOC> ."]>
ic| entity: <PER-span (1,2): "George Washington">
ic| entity: <LOC-span (5): "Washington">
ic| entity: <PER-span (1,2): "عمرو عادلي">
ic| entity: <ORG-span (8,9): "الجامعة الأمريكية">
ic| entity: <LOC-span (10): "بالقاهرة">
ic| sentence.to_dict(tag_type='ner'): 
{"text":"عمرو عادلي أستاذ للاقتصاد السياسي المساعد في الجامعة الأمريكية  بالقاهرة .",
"labels":[],
{"entities":[{{{
               "text":"عمرو عادلي",
               "start_pos":0,
               "end_pos":10,
               "labels":[PER (0.9826)]},
            {"text":"الجامعة الأمريكية",
               "start_pos":45,
               "end_pos":62,
               "labels":[ORG (0.7679)]},
            {"text":"بالقاهرة",
               "start_pos":64,
               "end_pos":72,
               "labels":[LOC (0.8079)]}]}
"text":"George Washington went to Washington .",
"labels":[],
"entities":[{
           {"text":"George Washington",
            "start_pos":0,
            "end_pos":17,
            "labels":[PER (0.9968)]},
           {"text":"Washington""start_pos":26,
            "end_pos":36,
            "labels":[LOC (0.9994)]}}]}

Model Configuration

SequenceTagger(
  (embeddings): StackedEmbeddings(
    (list_embedding_0): WordEmbeddings('glove')
    (list_embedding_1): FlairEmbeddings(
      (lm): LanguageModel(
        (drop): Dropout(p=0.1, inplace=False)
        (encoder): Embedding(7125, 100)
        (rnn): LSTM(100, 2048)
        (decoder): Linear(in_features=2048, out_features=7125, bias=True)
      )
    )
    (list_embedding_2): FlairEmbeddings(
      (lm): LanguageModel(
        (drop): Dropout(p=0.1, inplace=False)
        (encoder): Embedding(7125, 100)
        (rnn): LSTM(100, 2048)
        (decoder): Linear(in_features=2048, out_features=7125, bias=True)
      )
    )
  )
  (word_dropout): WordDropout(p=0.05)
  (locked_dropout): LockedDropout(p=0.5)
  (embedding2nn): Linear(in_features=4196, out_features=4196, bias=True)
  (rnn): LSTM(4196, 256, batch_first=True, bidirectional=True)
  (linear): Linear(in_features=512, out_features=15, bias=True)
  (beta): 1.0
  (weights): None
  (weight_tensor) None

Due to the right-to-left in left-to-right context, some formatting errors might occur. and your code might appear like this, (link accessed on 2020-10-27)

Citation

if you use this model, please consider citing this work:

@unpublished{MMHU21
author = "M. Megahed",
title = "Sequence Labeling Architectures in Diglossia",
year = {2021},
doi = "10.13140/RG.2.2.34961.10084"
url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358956953_Sequence_Labeling_Architectures_in_Diglossia_-_a_case_study_of_Arabic_and_its_dialects}
}
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