SIRIS-Lab / affilgood-span-multilingual

AffilGood-SPAN

Overview

Model description

The multilingual version of affilgood-span-multilingual is a Named Entity Recognition (NER) model for identifying span of single affiliation strings in raw affiliation strings from scientific papers and projects, fine-tuned from the AffilRoberta model, a RoBERTa base model futher pre-trained for MLM task on a medium-size corpus of raw affiliation stirngs collected from OpenAlex.

Raw affiliation span identification task is aimed at extracting and cleaning affiliation strings when there is noise and/or when there are multiple affiliation strings in the same signature. Typically, multiple institutions have been considered to be separated by semicolons. However, other punctuation marks, spaces or and connectors are frequently used to separate affiliations.

We have annotated a dataset containing 2,072 raw affiliation strings obtained from OpenAlex to identify spans containing relevant affiliation data within them. The annotated instances were selected by a stratified random sampling by country, focusing on ensuring diversity in affiliation languages and origins. Additional manually-chosen instances with noisy sequences were included in the annotated data so we could train our model to filter out non-affiliation strings. It is frequent that affiliation data automatically extracted from PDF files contain texts that should have been discarded (e.g. email, acknowledgements or part of the contents of the publication). These data can introduce errors in the subsequent steps of the pipeline.

We have fine-tuned the models for 25 epochs, using 80% of the dataset for training, 10% for validation and 10% for testing. Best performing model is available here.

Intended Usage

This model is intended to be used for multilingual raw affiliation strings, because this model is pre-trained on XLM-RoBERTa, NER and large further pre-training corpora are both multilingual.

How to use

from transformers import pipeline
affilgood_span_pipeline("ner", model=model, tokenizer=tokenizer, aggregation_strategy="simple")
sentence = "Deanery of Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, and TW2Informatics Ltd, Gothenburg, 42166, Sweden / Received in revised form February 22, 2016; ENaC, epithelial sodium channel"
output = affilgood_span_pipeline(sentence)
print(output)

Limitations and bias

No measures have been taken to estimate the bias and toxicity embedded in the model.

We have annotated a dataset containing 2,072 raw affiliation strings obtained from OpenAlex to identify spans containing relevant affiliation data within them. The annotated instances were selected by a stratified random sampling by country, focusing on ensuring diversity in affiliation languages and origins. Additional manually-chosen instances with noisy sequences were included in the annotated data so we could train our model to filter out non-affiliation strings. It is frequent that affiliation data automatically extracted from PDF files contain texts that should have been discarded (e.g. email, acknowledgements or part of the contents of the publication). These data can introduce errors in the subsequent steps of the pipeline.

Training

We used the AffilGood-SPAN dataset for training and evaluation.

We fine-tuned the adapted and base models for token classification with the IOB annotation schema. We trained the models for 25 epochs, using 80% of the dataset for training, 10% for validation and 10% for testing.

Hyperparameters used for training are described here:

• Learning Rate: 2e-5
• Learning Rate Decay: Linear
• Weight Decay: 0.01
• Warmup Portion: 0.06
• Batch Size: 128
• Number of Steps: 25k steps
• Adam ε: 1e-6
• Adam β ₁ : 0.9
• Adam β ₂ : 0.999

The best performing epoch (considering macro-averaged F1 with strict matching criteria) was used to select the model .

Evaluation

The model's performance was evaluated on a 10% of the dataset.

All the numbers reported above represent F1-score with strict and partial match, when both the boundaries and types of the entities match.

Additional information

Authors

• SIRIS Lab, Research Division of SIRIS Academic, Barcelona, Spain
• LaSTUS Lab, TALN Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
• Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Contact

For further information, send an email to either [email protected] or [email protected] .

License

This work is distributed under a Apache License, Version 2.0 .

Funding

This work was partially funded and supporter by:

• Industrial Doctorates Plan of the Department of Research and Universities of the Generalitat de Catalunya, by Departament de Recerca i Universitats de la Generalitat de Catalunya (ajuts SGR-Cat 2021),
• Maria de Maeztu Units of Excellence Programme CEX2021-001195-M, funded by MCIN/AEI /10.13039/501100011033
• EU HORIZON SciLake (Grant Agreement 101058573)
• EU HORIZON ERINIA (Grant Agreement 101060930)

Citation

@inproceedings{duran-silva-etal-2024-affilgood,
    title = "{A}ffil{G}ood: Building reliable institution name disambiguation tools to improve scientific literature analysis",
    author = "Duran-Silva, Nicolau  and
      Accuosto, Pablo  and
      Przyby{\l}a, Piotr  and
      Saggion, Horacio",
    editor = "Ghosal, Tirthankar  and
      Singh, Amanpreet  and
      Waard, Anita  and
      Mayr, Philipp  and
      Naik, Aakanksha  and
      Weller, Orion  and
      Lee, Yoonjoo  and
      Shen, Shannon  and
      Qin, Yanxia",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP 2024)",
    month = aug,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Bangkok, Thailand",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.sdp-1.13",
    pages = "135--144",
}

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