HistNERo: Historical Named Entity Recognition for the Romanian Language

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Main Authors: Avram, Andrei-Marius, Iuga, Andreea, Manolache, George-Vlad, Matei, Vlad-Cristian, Micliuş, Răzvan-Gabriel, Muntean, Vlad-Andrei, Sorlescu, Manuel-Petru, Şerban, Dragoş-Andrei, Urse, Adrian-Dinu, Păiş, Vasile, Cercel, Dumitru-Clementin
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author Avram, Andrei-Marius
Iuga, Andreea
Manolache, George-Vlad
Matei, Vlad-Cristian
Micliuş, Răzvan-Gabriel
Muntean, Vlad-Andrei
Sorlescu, Manuel-Petru
Şerban, Dragoş-Andrei
Urse, Adrian-Dinu
Păiş, Vasile
Cercel, Dumitru-Clementin
author_facet Avram, Andrei-Marius
Iuga, Andreea
Manolache, George-Vlad
Matei, Vlad-Cristian
Micliuş, Răzvan-Gabriel
Muntean, Vlad-Andrei
Sorlescu, Manuel-Petru
Şerban, Dragoş-Andrei
Urse, Adrian-Dinu
Păiş, Vasile
Cercel, Dumitru-Clementin
contents This work introduces HistNERo, the first Romanian corpus for Named Entity Recognition (NER) in historical newspapers. The dataset contains 323k tokens of text, covering more than half of the 19th century (i.e., 1817) until the late part of the 20th century (i.e., 1990). Eight native Romanian speakers annotated the dataset with five named entities. The samples belong to one of the following four historical regions of Romania, namely Bessarabia, Moldavia, Transylvania, and Wallachia. We employed this proposed dataset to perform several experiments for NER using Romanian pre-trained language models. Our results show that the best model achieved a strict F1-score of 55.69%. Also, by reducing the discrepancies between regions through a novel domain adaption technique, we improved the performance on this corpus to a strict F1-score of 66.80%, representing an absolute gain of more than 10%.
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spellingShingle HistNERo: Historical Named Entity Recognition for the Romanian Language
Avram, Andrei-Marius
Iuga, Andreea
Manolache, George-Vlad
Matei, Vlad-Cristian
Micliuş, Răzvan-Gabriel
Muntean, Vlad-Andrei
Sorlescu, Manuel-Petru
Şerban, Dragoş-Andrei
Urse, Adrian-Dinu
Păiş, Vasile
Cercel, Dumitru-Clementin
Computation and Language
This work introduces HistNERo, the first Romanian corpus for Named Entity Recognition (NER) in historical newspapers. The dataset contains 323k tokens of text, covering more than half of the 19th century (i.e., 1817) until the late part of the 20th century (i.e., 1990). Eight native Romanian speakers annotated the dataset with five named entities. The samples belong to one of the following four historical regions of Romania, namely Bessarabia, Moldavia, Transylvania, and Wallachia. We employed this proposed dataset to perform several experiments for NER using Romanian pre-trained language models. Our results show that the best model achieved a strict F1-score of 55.69%. Also, by reducing the discrepancies between regions through a novel domain adaption technique, we improved the performance on this corpus to a strict F1-score of 66.80%, representing an absolute gain of more than 10%.
title HistNERo: Historical Named Entity Recognition for the Romanian Language
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00155