rpeel/glitext-small
About
GLiNER is a Named Entity Recognition (NER) model capable of identifying any entity type using a bidirectional transformer encoder (BERT-like). It provides a practical alternative to traditional NER models, which are limited to predefined entities, and Large Language Models (LLMs) that, despite their flexibility, are costly and large for resource-constrained scenarios.
Links
- Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08526
- Repository: https://github.com/urchade/GLiNER
Installation
To use this model, you must install the GLiNER Python library:
!pip install gliner -UUsage
Once you've downloaded the GLiNER library, you can import the GLiNER class. You can then load this model using GLiNER.from_pretrained and predict entities with predict_entities.
from gliner import GLiNER
model = GLiNER.from_pretrained("gliner-community/gliner_small-v2.5", load_tokenizer=True)
text = """
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro (Portuguese pronunciation: [kɾiʃˈtjɐnu ʁɔˈnaldu]; born 5 February 1985) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for and captains both Saudi Pro League club Al Nassr and the Portugal national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Ronaldo has won five Ballon d'Or awards,[note 3] a record three UEFA Men's Player of the Year Awards, and four European Golden Shoes, the most by a European player. He has won 33 trophies in his career, including seven league titles, five UEFA Champions Leagues, the UEFA European Championship and the UEFA Nations League. Ronaldo holds the records for most appearances (183), goals (140) and assists (42) in the Champions League, goals in the European Championship (14), international goals (128) and international appearances (205). He is one of the few players to have made over 1,200 professional career appearances, the most by an outfield player, and has scored over 850 official senior career goals for club and country, making him the top goalscorer of all time.
"""
labels = ["person", "award", "date", "competitions", "teams"]
entities = model.predict_entities(text, labels)
for entity in entities:
print(entity["text"], "=>", entity["label"])Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro => person
5 February 1985 => date
Al Nassr => teams
Portugal national team => teams
Ballon d'Or => award
UEFA Men's Player of the Year Awards => award
European Golden Shoes => award
UEFA Champions Leagues => competitions
UEFA European Championship => competitions
UEFA Nations League => competitions
Champions League => competitions
European Championship => competitionsNamed Entity Recognition benchmark result
Below is a comparison of results between previous versions of the model and the current one:
Results on other datasets
Other available models
Model Authors
The model authors are:
- Urchade Zaratiana
- Ihor Stepanov
- Nadi Tomeh
- Pierre Holat
- Thierry Charnois
Citation
@misc{zaratiana2023gliner,
title={GLiNER: Generalist Model for Named Entity Recognition using Bidirectional Transformer},
author={Urchade Zaratiana and Nadi Tomeh and Pierre Holat and Thierry Charnois},
year={2023},
eprint={2311.08526},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL}
}Source Model Repo
This model is derived from `gliner-community/gliner_small-v2.5`. See the upstream repository for the original safetensors weights, training data, and the full upstream model card.
ONNX Weights
ONNX weights added by SAS — converted from the upstream safetensors checkpoint.
File in this repo: model.onnx.
Using this Model with the SAS GLiText API
This repo is consumed by the SAS GLiText product. To download it onto a SAS GLiText server:
POST /v1/models/download?name=smallTo download and load into memory in one step:
PUT /v1/models?name=smallSecurity Scan
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