---
pipeline_tag: text-classification

language:

- ca

license: apache-2.0

tags:

- "catalan"

- "semantic textual similarity"

- "sts-ca"

- "CaText"

- "Catalan Textual Corpus"

datasets:

- "projecte-aina/sts-ca"

metrics:

- "combined_score"

model-index:

- name: roberta-base-ca-v2-cased-sts
  results:
  - task: 
      type: text-classification
    dataset:
      type:   projecte-aina/sts-ca
      name: STS-ca
    metrics:
      - name: Combined score
        type: combined_score
        value: 0.7907
        
---

# Catalan BERTa-v2 (roberta-base-ca-v2) finetuned for Semantic Textual Similarity.

## Table of Contents
- [Model Description](#model-description)
- [Intended Uses and Limitations](#intended-uses-and-limitations)
- [How to Use](#how-to-use)
- [Training](#training)
  - [Training Data](#training-data)
  - [Training Procedure](#training-procedure)
- [Evaluation](#evaluation)
   - [Variable and Metrics](#variable-and-metrics)
   - [Evaluation Results](#evaluation-results)
- [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
- [Citation Information](#citation-information)
- [Funding](#funding)
- [Contributions](#contributions)

## Model description

The **roberta-base-ca-v2-cased-sts** is a Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) model for the Catalan language fine-tuned from the [roberta-base-ca-v2](https://huggingface.co/projecte-aina/roberta-base-ca-v2) model, a [RoBERTa](https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11692) base model pre-trained on a medium-size corpus collected from publicly available corpora and crawlers (check the roberta-base-ca-v2 model card for more details).

## Intended Uses and Limitations

**roberta-base-ca-v2-cased-sts** model can be used to assess the similarity between two snippets of text. The model is limited by its training dataset and may not generalize well for all use cases.

## How to use
To get the correct<sup>1</sup> model's prediction scores with values between 0.0 and 5.0, use the following code:

```python
from transformers import pipeline, AutoTokenizer
from scipy.special import logit

model = 'projecte-aina/roberta-base-ca-v2-cased-sts'
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model)
pipe = pipeline('text-classification', model=model, tokenizer=tokenizer)

def prepare(sentence_pairs):
    sentence_pairs_prep = []
    for s1, s2 in sentence_pairs:
        sentence_pairs_prep.append(f"{tokenizer.cls_token} {s1}{tokenizer.sep_token}{tokenizer.sep_token} {s2}{tokenizer.sep_token}")
    return sentence_pairs_prep

sentence_pairs = [("El llibre va caure per la finestra.", "El llibre va sortir volant."),
                  ("M'agrades.", "T'estimo."),
                  ("M'agrada el sol i la calor", "A la Garrotxa plou molt.")]

predictions = pipe(prepare(sentence_pairs), add_special_tokens=False)

# convert back to scores to the original 0 and 5 interval
for prediction in predictions:
    prediction['score'] = logit(prediction['score'])
print(predictions)
```
Expected output:
```
[{'label': 'SIMILARITY', 'score': 2.118301674983813}, 
{'label': 'SIMILARITY', 'score': 2.1799755855125853}, 
{'label': 'SIMILARITY', 'score': 0.9511617858568939}]
```

<sup>1</sup> _**avoid using the widget** scores since they are normalized and do not reflect the original annotation values._

## Training

### Training data
We used the STS dataset in Catalan called [STS-ca](https://huggingface.co/datasets/projecte-aina/sts-ca) for training and evaluation.

### Training Procedure
The model was trained with a batch size of 16 and a learning rate of 5e-5 for 5 epochs. We then selected the best checkpoint using the downstream task metric in the corresponding development set, and then evaluated it on the test set.

## Evaluation

### Variable and Metrics

This model was finetuned maximizing the average score between the Pearson and Spearman correlations.

## Evaluation results
We evaluated the _roberta-base-ca-v2-cased-sts_ on the STS-ca test set against standard multilingual and monolingual baselines:

| Model       | STS-ca (Combined score)   | 
| ------------|:-------------|
| roberta-base-ca-v2-cased-sts | 79.07 |
| roberta-base-ca-cased-sts | **80.19** |
| mBERT       | 74.26 |
| XLM-RoBERTa | 61.61 |

For more details, check the fine-tuning and evaluation scripts in the official [GitHub repository](https://github.com/projecte-aina/club).

## Licensing Information

[Apache License, Version 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)

## Citation Information 
If you use any of these resources (datasets or models) in your work, please cite our latest paper:
```bibtex
@inproceedings{armengol-estape-etal-2021-multilingual,
    title = "Are Multilingual Models the Best Choice for Moderately Under-resourced Languages? {A} Comprehensive Assessment for {C}atalan",
    author = "Armengol-Estap{\'e}, Jordi  and
      Carrino, Casimiro Pio  and
      Rodriguez-Penagos, Carlos  and
      de Gibert Bonet, Ona  and
      Armentano-Oller, Carme  and
      Gonzalez-Agirre, Aitor  and
      Melero, Maite  and
      Villegas, Marta",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021",
    month = aug,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-acl.437",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.findings-acl.437",
    pages = "4933--4946",
}
```

### Funding
This work was funded by the [Departament de la Vicepresidència i de Polítiques Digitals i Territori de la Generalitat de Catalunya](https://politiquesdigitals.gencat.cat/en/inici/index.html) within the framework of [Projecte AINA](https://politiquesdigitals.gencat.cat/ca/economia/catalonia-ai/aina).

## Contributions

[N/A]