wikineural-multilingual-ner

This is the model card for the EMNLP 2021 paper WikiNEuRal: Combined Neural and Knowledge-based Silver Data Creation for Multilingual NER. We fine-tuned a multilingual language model (mBERT) for 3 epochs on our WikiNEuRal dataset for Named Entity Recognition (NER). The resulting multilingual NER model supports the 9 languages covered by WikiNEuRal (de, en, es, fr, it, nl, pl, pt, ru), and it was trained on all 9 languages jointly. The original repository for the paper can be found at https://github.com/Babelscape/wikineural. This model is trained on WikiNEuRal, a state-of-the-art dataset for Multilingual NER automatically derived from Wikipedia. Therefore, it might not generalize well to all textual genres (e.g. news). On the other hand, models trained only on news articles (e.g. only on CoNLL03) have been proven to obtain much lower scores on encyclopedic articles. To obtain more robust systems, we encourage you to train a system on the combination of WikiNEuRal with other datasets (e.g. WikiNEuRal + CoNLL).