metadata

language:
  - pt
thumbnail: Portugues BERT for the Legal Domain
pipeline_tag: sentence-similarity
tags:
  - sentence-transformers
  - sentence-similarity
  - transformers
datasets:
  - assin
  - assin2
  - rufimelo/PortugueseLegalSentences-v0
widget:
  - source_sentence: O advogado apresentou as provas ao juíz.
    sentences:
      - O juíz leu as provas.
      - O juíz leu o recurso.
      - O juíz atirou uma pedra.
    example_title: Example 1
model-index:
  - name: BERTimbau
    results:
      - task:
          name: STS
          type: STS
        metrics:
          - name: Pearson Correlation - assin Dataset
            type: Pearson Correlation
            value: 0.71457
          - name: Pearson Correlation - assin2 Dataset
            type: Pearson Correlation
            value: 0.73545
          - name: Pearson Correlation - stsb_multi_mt pt Dataset
            type: Pearson Correlation
            value: 0.72383

rufimelo/Legal-BERTimbau-sts-base

This is a sentence-transformers model: It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 1024 dimensional dense vector space and can be used for tasks like clustering or semantic search. rufimelo/Legal-BERTimbau-sts-base is based on Legal-BERTimbau-large which derives from BERTimbau base. It is adapted to the Portuguese legal domain and trained for STS on portuguese datasets.

Usage (Sentence-Transformers)

Using this model becomes easy when you have sentence-transformers installed:

pip install -U sentence-transformers

Then you can use the model like this:

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
sentences = ["Isto é um exemplo", "Isto é um outro exemplo"]

model = SentenceTransformer('rufimelo/Legal-BERTimbau-sts-base')
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings)

Usage (HuggingFace Transformers)

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel
import torch


#Mean Pooling - Take attention mask into account for correct averaging
def mean_pooling(model_output, attention_mask):
    token_embeddings = model_output[0] #First element of model_output contains all token embeddings
    input_mask_expanded = attention_mask.unsqueeze(-1).expand(token_embeddings.size()).float()
    return torch.sum(token_embeddings * input_mask_expanded, 1) / torch.clamp(input_mask_expanded.sum(1), min=1e-9)

# Sentences we want sentence embeddings for
sentences = ['This is an example sentence', 'Each sentence is converted']

# Load model from HuggingFace Hub
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('rufimelo/Legal-BERTimbau-sts-base')
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('rufimelo/Legal-BERTimbau-sts-base')

# Tokenize sentences
encoded_input = tokenizer(sentences, padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors='pt')

# Compute token embeddings
with torch.no_grad():
    model_output = model(**encoded_input)
# Perform pooling. In this case, mean pooling.
sentence_embeddings = mean_pooling(model_output, encoded_input['attention_mask'])
print("Sentence embeddings:")
print(sentence_embeddings)

Evaluation Results STS

Model	Assin	Assin2	stsb_multi_mt pt	avg
Legal-BERTimbau-sts-base	0.71457	0.73545	0.72383	0.72462
Legal-BERTimbau-sts-base-ma	0.74874	0.79532	0.82254	0.78886
Legal-BERTimbau-sts-base-ma-v2	0.75481	0.80262	0.82178	0.79307
Legal-BERTimbau-base-TSDAE-sts	0.78814	0.81380	0.75777	0.78657
Legal-BERTimbau-sts-large	0.76629	0.82357	0.79120	0.79369
Legal-BERTimbau-sts-large-v2	0.76299	0.81121	0.81726	0.79715
Legal-BERTimbau-sts-large-ma	0.76195	0.81622	0.82608	0.80142
Legal-BERTimbau-sts-large-ma-v2	0.7836	0.8462	0.8261	0.81863
Legal-BERTimbau-sts-large-ma-v3	0.7749	0.8470	0.8364	0.81943
Legal-BERTimbau-large-v2-sts	0.71665	0.80106	0.73724	0.75165
Legal-BERTimbau-large-TSDAE-sts	0.72376	0.79261	0.73635	0.75090
Legal-BERTimbau-large-TSDAE-sts-v2	0.81326	0.83130	0.786314	0.81029
Legal-BERTimbau-large-TSDAE-sts-v3	0.80703	0.82270	0.77638	0.80204
----------------------------------------	----------	----------	----------	----------
BERTimbau base Fine-tuned for STS	0.78455	0.80626	0.82841	0.80640
BERTimbau large Fine-tuned for STS	0.78193	0.81758	0.83784	0.81245
----------------------------------------	----------	----------	----------	----------
paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2	0.71457	0.79831	0.83999	0.78429
paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 Fine-tuned with assin(s)	0.77641	0.79831	0.84575	0.80682

Training

rufimelo/Legal-BERTimbau-sts-base is based on Legal-BERTimbau-largewhich derives from BERTimbau base. It was trained for Semantic Textual Similarity, being submitted to a fine tuning stage with the assin and assin2 datasets.

Full Model Architecture

SentenceTransformer(
  (0): Transformer({'max_seq_length': 128, 'do_lower_case': False}) with Transformer model: BertModel 
  (1): Pooling({'word_embedding_dimension': 768, 'pooling_mode_cls_token': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_tokens': True, 'pooling_mode_max_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_sqrt_len_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_weightedmean_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_lasttoken': False})
)

Citing & Authors

If you use this work, please cite:

@inproceedings{souza2020bertimbau,
  author    = {F{\'a}bio Souza and
               Rodrigo Nogueira and
               Roberto Lotufo},
  title     = {{BERT}imbau: pretrained {BERT} models for {B}razilian {P}ortuguese},
  booktitle = {9th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems, {BRACIS}, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, October 20-23 (to appear)},
  year      = {2020}
}

@inproceedings{fonseca2016assin,
  title={ASSIN: Avaliacao de similaridade semantica e inferencia textual},
  author={Fonseca, E and Santos, L and Criscuolo, Marcelo and Aluisio, S},
  booktitle={Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language-12th International Conference, Tomar, Portugal},
  pages={13--15},
  year={2016}
}

@inproceedings{real2020assin,
  title={The assin 2 shared task: a quick overview},
  author={Real, Livy and Fonseca, Erick and Oliveira, Hugo Goncalo},
  booktitle={International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language},
  pages={406--412},
  year={2020},
  organization={Springer}
}
@InProceedings{huggingface:dataset:stsb_multi_mt,
title = {Machine translated multilingual STS benchmark dataset.},
author={Philip May},
year={2021},
url={https://github.com/PhilipMay/stsb-multi-mt}
}