Data Science2024

Fine-Tuning BERT for Domain-Specific Named Entity Recognition

Adapted a pre-trained BERT model for Named Entity Recognition on Lord of the Rings text, identifying characters, locations, and organizations.

Methodology

Comparative training on the English Web Treebank versus Lord of the Rings-specific data to assess the effect of domain adaptation.

Findings

Domain-specific training data produced significant performance improvements over general-purpose data alone.

Tools & Methods

BERTPyTorchTokenizationF1 / Precision / Recall
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