Training and Evaluation of Named Entity Recognition Models for Classical Latin. Beersmans, M., de Graaf, E., Van de Cruys, T., & Fantoli, M. In Proceedings of the Ancient Language Processing Workshop, pages 1–12, Varna, Bulgaria, 2023. INCOMA Ltd..
Training and Evaluation of Named Entity Recognition Models for Classical Latin [pdf]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
We evaluate the performance of various models on the task of named entity recognition (NER) for classical Latin. Using an existing dataset, we train two transformer-based LatinBERT models and one shallow conditional random field (CRF) model. The performance is assessed using both standard metrics and a detailed manual error analysis, and compared to the results obtained by different already released Latin NER tools. Both analyses demonstrate that the BERT models achieve a better f1-score than the other models. Furthermore, we annotate new, unseen data for further evaluation of the models, and we discuss the impact of annotation choices on the results.

Downloads: 0