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---
language: fr
license: apache-2.0
tags:
- legal
- feature-extraction
datasets: maastrichtlawtech/bsard
pipeline_tag: fill-mask
widget:
- text: >-
Chaque commune de la Région peut adopter un <mask> communal de
développement, applicable à l'ensemble de son territoire.
library_name: transformers
---
# Legal-DistilCamemBERT-base
This is a [DistilCamemBERT](https://huggingface.co/cmarkea/distilcamembert-base) model further pre-trained on 22,000+ legal articles from the Belgian legislation in French.
## Usage
```python
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("maastrichtlawtech/legal-distilcamembert")
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("maastrichtlawtech/legal-distilcamembert")
```
## Training
#### Background
We utilize the [distilcamembert-base](https://huggingface.co/cmarkea/distilcamembert-base) checkpoint and further pre-train it with a masked language modeling (MLM) objective on legislation in French using the [script](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/main/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_mlm.py) from Hugging Face.
#### Hyperparameters
We train the model on a single Tesla V100 GPU with 32GBs of memory during 200 epochs (i.e., ~50k steps) using a batch size of 32. We use the AdamW optimizer with an initial learning rate of 5e-05, weight decay of 0.01, learning rate warmup over the first 500 steps, and linear decay of the learning rate. The sequence length was limited to 512 tokens.
#### Data
We use the [Belgian Statutory Article Retrieval Dataset (BSARD)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/maastrichtlawtech/bsard) to further pre-train the model. BSARD is a French native dataset for studying legal information retrieval that includes more than 22,600 statutory articles from the Belgian legislation.
## Citation
```bibtex
@inproceedings{louis2023finding,
title = {Finding the Law: Enhancing Statutory Article Retrieval via Graph Neural Networks},
author = {Louis, Antoine and van Dijck, Gijs and Spanakis, Gerasimos},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
month = may,
year = {2023},
address = {Dubrovnik, Croatia},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
url = {https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-main.203/},
pages = {2753–2768},
}
```
[//]: # (https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.12847)