Jargon-legal-4096

Jargon is an efficient transformer encoder LM for French, combining the LinFormer attention mechanism with the RoBERTa model architecture.

Jargon is available in several versions with different context sizes and types of pre-training corpora.

Model	Initialised from...	Training Data
jargon-general-base	scratch	8.5GB Web Corpus
jargon-general-biomed	jargon-general-base	5.4GB Medical Corpus
jargon-general-legal	jargon-general-base	18GB Legal Corpus
jargon-multidomain-base	jargon-general-base	Medical+Legal Corpora
jargon-legal	scratch	18GB Legal Corpus
jargon-legal-4096 (this model)	scratch	18GB Legal Corpus
jargon-biomed	scratch	5.4GB Medical Corpus
jargon-biomed-4096	scratch	5.4GB Medical Corpus
jargon-NACHOS	scratch	NACHOS
jargon-NACHOS-4096	scratch	NACHOS

Evaluation

The Jargon models were evaluated on an range of specialized downstream tasks.

Legal Domain Benchmark

Results averaged across five runs with varying random seeds.

	ECtHR-FR	OACS	SJP
Task Type	Document Classification	Document Classification	Document Classification
Metric	Macro-F1	Macro-F1	Macro-F1
jargon-general-base	42.9	50.8	55.1
jargon-multidomain-base	44.5	55.6	58.1
jargon-general-legal	43.1	49.9	54.5
jargon-legal	44.6	51.6	56.7
jargon-legal-4096	45.9	54.1	68.2

For more info please check out the paper, accepted for publication at LREC-COLING 2024.

Using Jargon models with HuggingFace transformers

You can get started with jargon-legal-4096 using the code snippet below:

from transformers import AutoModelForMaskedLM, AutoTokenizer, pipeline

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("PantagrueLLM/jargon-legal-4096", trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForMaskedLM.from_pretrained("PantagrueLLM/jargon-legal-4096", trust_remote_code=True)

jargon_maskfiller = pipeline("fill-mask", model=model, tokenizer=tokenizer)
output = jargon_maskfiller("Il est allé au <mask> hier")

You can also use the classes AutoModel, AutoModelForSequenceClassification, or AutoModelForTokenClassification to load Jargon models, depending on the downstream task in question.

• Language(s): French
• License: MIT
• Developed by: Vincent Segonne
• Funded by
  • GENCI-IDRIS (Grant 2022 A0131013801)
  • French National Research Agency: Pantagruel grant ANR-23-IAS1-0001
  • MIAI@Grenoble Alpes ANR-19-P3IA-0003
  • PROPICTO ANR-20-CE93-0005
  • Lawbot ANR-20-CE38-0013
  • Swiss National Science Foundation (grant PROPICTO N°197864)
• Authors
  • Vincent Segonne
  • Aidan Mannion
  • Laura Cristina Alonzo Canul
  • Alexandre Audibert
  • Xingyu Liu
  • Cécile Macaire
  • Adrien Pupier
  • Yongxin Zhou
  • Mathilde Aguiar
  • Felix Herron
  • Magali Norré
  • Massih-Reza Amini
  • Pierrette Bouillon
  • Iris Eshkol-Taravella
  • Emmanuelle Esperança-Rodier
  • Thomas François
  • Lorraine Goeuriot
  • Jérôme Goulian
  • Mathieu Lafourcade
  • Benjamin Lecouteux
  • François Portet
  • Fabien Ringeval
  • Vincent Vandeghinste
  • Maximin Coavoux
  • Marco Dinarelli
  • Didier Schwab

Citation

If you use this model for your own research work, please cite as follows:

@inproceedings{segonne:hal-04535557,
  TITLE = {{Jargon: A Suite of Language Models and Evaluation Tasks for French Specialized Domains}},
  AUTHOR = {Segonne, Vincent and Mannion, Aidan and Alonzo Canul, Laura Cristina and Audibert, Alexandre and Liu, Xingyu and Macaire, C{\'e}cile and Pupier, Adrien and Zhou, Yongxin and Aguiar, Mathilde and Herron, Felix and Norr{\'e}, Magali and Amini, Massih-Reza and Bouillon, Pierrette and Eshkol-Taravella, Iris and Esperan{\c c}a-Rodier, Emmanuelle and Fran{\c c}ois, Thomas and Goeuriot, Lorraine and Goulian, J{\'e}r{\^o}me and Lafourcade, Mathieu and Lecouteux, Benjamin and Portet, Fran{\c c}ois and Ringeval, Fabien and Vandeghinste, Vincent and Coavoux, Maximin and Dinarelli, Marco and Schwab, Didier},
  URL = {https://hal.science/hal-04535557},
  BOOKTITLE = {{LREC-COLING 2024 - Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation}},
  ADDRESS = {Turin, Italy},
  YEAR = {2024},
  MONTH = May,
  KEYWORDS = {Self-supervised learning ; Pretrained language models ; Evaluation benchmark ; Biomedical document processing ; Legal document processing ; Speech transcription},
  PDF = {https://hal.science/hal-04535557/file/FB2_domaines_specialises_LREC_COLING24.pdf},
  HAL_ID = {hal-04535557},
  HAL_VERSION = {v1},
}