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masakhane/afroxlmr-large-ner-masakhaner-1.0_2.0

Shona(sna)NERDavlan/afro-xlmr-largeToken Classification (XLM-R fine-tune)

Model Info

Language

Shona (sna)

Architecture

Token Classification (XLM-R fine-tune)

Institution

Adelani, David I. et al. (Masakhane)

Last Updated

17 Jun 2026

Intended Use Cases

NER (21 African languages)

License & Access

SPDX identifierCC-BY-4.0

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

Provenance

Source URL

https://huggingface.co/masakhane/afroxlmr-large-ner-masakhaner-1.0_2.0

Fetch Timestamp

17 Jun 2026

Submitter

Adelani, David I. et al. (Masakhane)

Full Record

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Registry columns (17/18)

iso code: sna
Model Name: masakhane/afroxlmr-large-ner-masakhaner-1.0_2.0
Where is it hosted: HuggingFace
Link: https://huggingface.co/masakhane/afroxlmr-large-ner-masakhaner-1.0_2.0
Year: 2022
Creator/Author(s): Adelani, David I. et al. (Masakhane)
Paper Reference: Adelani et al. (2022). MasakhaNER 2.0. EMNLP 2022.
NLP Task: NER
Architecture: Token Classification (XLM-R fine-tune)
Base Model: Davlan/afro-xlmr-large
Fine-tuned?: Yes
License: CC-BY-4.0
Open Access: Open
Has Model Card: Yes
SOTA Tasks: NER (21 African languages)
Verified By: Not stated
Date Indexed: 2026-06-17
Comment: Shona (sna) achieves F1=96.5 on MasakhaNER 2.0 — highest in the benchmark. Multilingual NER model covering 21 African languages.

Readiness (LRS) (3/7)

model id: masakhane-afroxlmr-large-ner-masakhaner-1-0-2-0-sna
Model Type: NER
Training Data Sources: MasakhaNER 1.0 + 2.0 (21 African languages)
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%

Documentation87%

Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance

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