---
language: en
license: mit
tags:
- flair
- token-classification
- sequence-tagger-model
base_model: dbmdz/bert-tiny-historic-multilingual-cased
widget:
- text: On Wednesday , a public dinner was given by the Conservative Burgesses of
    Leads , to the Conservative members of the Leeds Town Council , in the Music Hall
    , Albion-street , which was very numerously attended .
---

# Fine-tuned Flair Model on TopRes19th English NER Dataset (HIPE-2022)

This Flair model was fine-tuned on the
[TopRes19th English](https://github.com/hipe-eval/HIPE-2022-data/blob/main/documentation/README-topres19th.md)
NER Dataset using hmBERT Tiny as backbone LM.

The TopRes19th dataset consists of NE-annotated historical English newspaper articles from 19C.

The following NEs were annotated: `BUILDING`, `LOC` and `STREET`.

# Results

We performed a hyper-parameter search over the following parameters with 5 different seeds per configuration:

* Batch Sizes: `[4, 8]`
* Learning Rates: `[5e-05, 3e-05]`

And report micro F1-score on development set:

| Configuration     | Seed 1       | Seed 2       | Seed 3       | Seed 4       | Seed 5           | Average         |
|-------------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|------------------|-----------------|
| `bs4-e10-lr5e-05` | [0.6681][1]  | [0.5754][2]  | [0.628][3]   | [0.6565][4]  | [0.658][5]       | 0.6372 ± 0.0376 |
| `bs8-e10-lr5e-05` | [0.6491][6]  | [0.5812][7]  | [0.565][8]   | [0.587][9]   | [**0.5938**][10] | 0.5952 ± 0.0319 |
| `bs4-e10-lr3e-05` | [0.6154][11] | [0.5782][12] | [0.5519][13] | [0.5929][14] | [0.5931][15]     | 0.5863 ± 0.0234 |
| `bs8-e10-lr3e-05` | [0.5978][16] | [0.5489][17] | [0.528][18]  | [0.5483][19] | [0.5754][20]     | 0.5597 ± 0.0272 |

[1]: https://hf.co/stefan-it/hmbench-topres19th-en-hmbert_tiny-bs4-wsFalse-e10-lr5e-05-poolingfirst-layers-1-crfFalse-1
[2]: https://hf.co/stefan-it/hmbench-topres19th-en-hmbert_tiny-bs4-wsFalse-e10-lr5e-05-poolingfirst-layers-1-crfFalse-2
[3]: https://hf.co/stefan-it/hmbench-topres19th-en-hmbert_tiny-bs4-wsFalse-e10-lr5e-05-poolingfirst-layers-1-crfFalse-3
[4]: https://hf.co/stefan-it/hmbench-topres19th-en-hmbert_tiny-bs4-wsFalse-e10-lr5e-05-poolingfirst-layers-1-crfFalse-4
[5]: https://hf.co/stefan-it/hmbench-topres19th-en-hmbert_tiny-bs4-wsFalse-e10-lr5e-05-poolingfirst-layers-1-crfFalse-5
[6]: https://hf.co/stefan-it/hmbench-topres19th-en-hmbert_tiny-bs8-wsFalse-e10-lr5e-05-poolingfirst-layers-1-crfFalse-1
[7]: https://hf.co/stefan-it/hmbench-topres19th-en-hmbert_tiny-bs8-wsFalse-e10-lr5e-05-poolingfirst-layers-1-crfFalse-2
[8]: https://hf.co/stefan-it/hmbench-topres19th-en-hmbert_tiny-bs8-wsFalse-e10-lr5e-05-poolingfirst-layers-1-crfFalse-3
[9]: https://hf.co/stefan-it/hmbench-topres19th-en-hmbert_tiny-bs8-wsFalse-e10-lr5e-05-poolingfirst-layers-1-crfFalse-4
[10]: https://hf.co/stefan-it/hmbench-topres19th-en-hmbert_tiny-bs8-wsFalse-e10-lr5e-05-poolingfirst-layers-1-crfFalse-5
[11]: https://hf.co/stefan-it/hmbench-topres19th-en-hmbert_tiny-bs4-wsFalse-e10-lr3e-05-poolingfirst-layers-1-crfFalse-1
[12]: https://hf.co/stefan-it/hmbench-topres19th-en-hmbert_tiny-bs4-wsFalse-e10-lr3e-05-poolingfirst-layers-1-crfFalse-2
[13]: https://hf.co/stefan-it/hmbench-topres19th-en-hmbert_tiny-bs4-wsFalse-e10-lr3e-05-poolingfirst-layers-1-crfFalse-3
[14]: https://hf.co/stefan-it/hmbench-topres19th-en-hmbert_tiny-bs4-wsFalse-e10-lr3e-05-poolingfirst-layers-1-crfFalse-4
[15]: https://hf.co/stefan-it/hmbench-topres19th-en-hmbert_tiny-bs4-wsFalse-e10-lr3e-05-poolingfirst-layers-1-crfFalse-5
[16]: https://hf.co/stefan-it/hmbench-topres19th-en-hmbert_tiny-bs8-wsFalse-e10-lr3e-05-poolingfirst-layers-1-crfFalse-1
[17]: https://hf.co/stefan-it/hmbench-topres19th-en-hmbert_tiny-bs8-wsFalse-e10-lr3e-05-poolingfirst-layers-1-crfFalse-2
[18]: https://hf.co/stefan-it/hmbench-topres19th-en-hmbert_tiny-bs8-wsFalse-e10-lr3e-05-poolingfirst-layers-1-crfFalse-3
[19]: https://hf.co/stefan-it/hmbench-topres19th-en-hmbert_tiny-bs8-wsFalse-e10-lr3e-05-poolingfirst-layers-1-crfFalse-4
[20]: https://hf.co/stefan-it/hmbench-topres19th-en-hmbert_tiny-bs8-wsFalse-e10-lr3e-05-poolingfirst-layers-1-crfFalse-5

The [training log](training.log) and TensorBoard logs (not available for hmBERT Base model) are also uploaded to the model hub.

More information about fine-tuning can be found [here](https://github.com/stefan-it/hmBench).

# Acknowledgements

We thank [Luisa März](https://github.com/LuisaMaerz), [Katharina Schmid](https://github.com/schmika) and
[Erion Çano](https://github.com/erionc) for their fruitful discussions about Historic Language Models.

Research supported with Cloud TPUs from Google's [TPU Research Cloud](https://sites.research.google/trc/about/) (TRC).
Many Thanks for providing access to the TPUs ❤️