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Davlan/bert-base-multilingual-cased-finetuned-naija

Nigerian Pidgin(pcm)NERbert-base-multilingual-casedMasked LM (mBERT fine-tune)
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Model Info

Language
Nigerian Pidgin (pcm)
Architecture
Masked LM (mBERT fine-tune)
Institution
Adelani, David et al. (Davlan / Masakhane)
Last Updated
11 Jun 2026

Intended Use Cases

NER, Masked LM (Nigerian Pidgin)

License & Access

SPDX identifierCC-BY-4.0

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

Provenance

Source URL
https://huggingface.co/Davlan/bert-base-multilingual-cased-finetuned-naija
Fetch Timestamp
11 Jun 2026
Submitter
Adelani, David et al. (Davlan / Masakhane)

Full Record

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Registry columns (17/18)

iso code
pcm
Model Name
Davlan/bert-base-multilingual-cased-finetuned-naija
Where is it hosted
HuggingFace
Link
https://huggingface.co/Davlan/bert-base-multilingual-cased-finetuned-naija
Year
2022
Creator/Author(s)
Adelani, David et al. (Davlan / Masakhane)
Paper Reference
Muhammad et al. (2022). NaijaSenti. LREC 2022.
NLP Task
NER
Architecture
Masked LM (mBERT fine-tune)
Base Model
bert-base-multilingual-cased
Fine-tuned?
Yes
License
CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
Open
Has Model Card
Yes
SOTA Tasks
NER, Masked LM (Nigerian Pidgin)
Verified By
Not stated
Date Indexed
2026-06-11
Comment
mBERT fine-tuned on Nigerian Pidgin (pcm). Better NER performance than multilingual baseline.

Readiness (LRS) (3/7)

model id
davlan-bert-base-multilingual-cased-finetuned-naija-pcm
Model Type
LLMderivedHugging Face card: pipeline_tag
Training Data Sources
Nigerian Pidgin news corpus (BBC Pidgin)
Benchmark Used
Not stated
Benchmark Score
Not stated
Benchmark Date
Not stated
Status
Not stated

Readiness Score Breakdown

5/5
Data Coverage100%
Model Availability100%
Benchmarks100%
Documentation77%
Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance
Regional Distribution
Dialect Coverage
Inclusivity
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