xlm-roberta-ner

🌍 Multilingual Named Entity Recognition for Social Media

Indonesian 🇮🇩 & English 🇬🇧 | XLM-RoBERTa Base

A fine-tuned XLM-RoBERTa-Base model for Named Entity Recognition (NER) on noisy social media text.

This model is optimized for multilingual informal content commonly found on:

• Twitter / X
• Instagram
• TikTok
• Facebook
• Online forums

It supports both Bahasa Indonesia and English, making it suitable for moderation systems, social listening, and content intelligence pipelines.

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🔍 Model Overview

• Architecture: FacebookAI/xlm-roberta-base
• Task: Token Classification (NER)
• Languages: Indonesian, English
• Domain: Informal & Social Media Text
• Training Date: 2026-02-26

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🏷️ Supported Entity Labels

This model detects the following entity types:

Tagging Scheme

BIO tagging format is used:

• B-XXX → Beginning of an entity
• I-XXX → Inside an entity
• O → Outside any entity

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📊 Model Performance

Evaluated on held-out validation dataset:

Evaluation Details

• Metric computed using seqeval
• Micro-averaged F1 score
• Validation set contains balanced entity distribution

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🏗️ Training Configuration

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🚀 Usage

Quick Inference (Hugging Face Pipeline)

from transformers import pipeline

ner = pipeline(
    "token-classification",
    model="nahiar/xlm-roberta-ner",
    aggregation_strategy="simple"
)

text_id = "Jokowi menghadiri World Economic Forum di Davos."
text_en = "Apple is opening a new office in Jakarta next month."

print(ner(text_id))
print(ner(text_en))

Aggregation Strategy Notes

• "simple" → Recommended (merges subword tokens)
• "first" → Uses first token representation
• "average" → Averages token scores
• "max" → Takes maximum token score

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🎯 Intended Use Cases

• Social media Named Entity Recognition
• Comment & post filtering
• Content moderation assistance
• Political monitoring
• Brand & organization tracking
• Multilingual content intelligence systems

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⚠️ Limitations

• Supports only the defined entity set: NOR, GPE, PER, ORG, EVT, LOC, LAW, FAC, WOA
• Not optimized for:
  • Formal academic/legal documents
  • Extremely short or ambiguous messages
  • Heavy slang or sarcastic expressions
• Performance may degrade on highly code-mixed sentences
• The model may inherit bias from training data

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⚖️ Ethical Considerations

This model may reflect demographic, geopolitical, or cultural biases present in the training dataset.

It is not intended to replace human judgment in high-risk or sensitive decision-making systems.

Human-in-the-loop review is strongly recommended for moderation or governance-related deployments.

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🖥️ Hardware Recommendations

• Recommended: GPU (≥ 8GB VRAM) for optimal performance
• CPU inference supported but slower
• Compatible with FP16 mixed precision for faster inference

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📜 License

Released under the Apache 2.0 License.
Free for commercial and research use.

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📚 Citation

@misc{hidayatuloh2026multilingualner,
  author    = {Nuri Hidayatuloh},
  title     = {Multilingual Named Entity Recognition for Social Media},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/nahiar/xlm-roberta-ner}
}

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🙌 Acknowledgements

• Hugging Face Transformers
• Facebook AI Research — XLM-RoBERTa
• Open-source NLP community
• Contributors and dataset annotators