Xlm Roberta Base Finetuned Amharic
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Xlm Roberta Base Finetuned Amharic
Developed by Davlan
A model fine-tuned on Amharic text based on XLM-RoBERTa, outperforming the original XLM-RoBERTa in Named Entity Recognition tasks
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Release Time : 3/2/2022
Model Overview
This model is a RoBERTa variant optimized for Amharic, primarily used for natural language processing tasks, with particular strength in Named Entity Recognition.
Model Features
Amharic optimization
Specifically fine-tuned for Amharic, performing better than the generic XLM-RoBERTa model on tasks in this language
Performance improvement
Achieved a 7-point higher F1 score than the original XLM-RoBERTa on the MasakhaNER dataset
Transfer learning
Fine-tuned based on the powerful multilingual XLM-RoBERTa-base model
Model Capabilities
Amharic text understanding
Named Entity Recognition
Masked language prediction
Use Cases
Natural Language Processing
Amharic news entity recognition
Identify named entities from Amharic news texts
Achieved 77.97 F1 score on the MasakhaNER dataset
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