GLiNER is a Named Entity Recognition (NER) model capable of identifying any entity type using a bidirectional transformer encoder (BERT-like). It provides a practical alternative to traditional NER models, which are limited to predefined entities, and Large Language Models (LLMs) that, despite their flexibility, are costly and large for resource-constrained scenarios.
To use this model, you must install the GLiNER Python library:
!pip install gliner
Usage
Once you've downloaded the GLiNER library, you can import the GLiNER class. You can then load this model using GLiNER.from_pretrained and predict entities with predict_entities.
python
1from gliner import GLiNER
23model = GLiNER.from_pretrained("alexneakameni/gliner-modern-bert")45text ="""
6Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro (Portuguese pronunciation: [kɾiʃˈtjɐnu ʁɔˈnaldu]; born 5 February 1985) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for and captains both Saudi Pro League club Al Nassr and the Portugal national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Ronaldo has won five Ballon d'Or awards,[note 3] a record three UEFA Men's Player of the Year Awards, and four European Golden Shoes, the most by a European player. He has won 33 trophies in his career, including seven league titles, five UEFA Champions Leagues, the UEFA European Championship and the UEFA Nations League. Ronaldo holds the records for most appearances (183), goals (140) and assists (42) in the Champions League, goals in the European Championship (14), international goals (128) and international appearances (205). He is one of the few players to have made over 1,200 professional career appearances, the most by an outfield player, and has scored over 850 official senior career goals for club and country, making him the top goalscorer of all time.
7"""89labels =["person","award","date","competitions","teams"]1011entities = model.predict_entities(text, labels)1213for entity in entities:14print(entity["text"],"<=>", entity["label"],"<=>",round(entity["score"],3))
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro => person <=> 0.552
5 February 1985 => date <=> 0.776
Saudi Pro League => teams <=> 0.146
Ballon d'Or awards => award <=> 0.343
UEFA Men's Player of the Year Awards => award <=> 0.56
European Golden Shoes => award <=> 0.482
33 trophies in his career, including seven league titles => award <=> 0.126
UEFA Champions Leagues => competitions <=> 0.196
UEFA European Championship => competitions <=> 0.271
UEFA Nations League => competitions <=> 0.273
Champions League => competitions <=> 0.172
European Championship => competitions <=> 0.22
1@misc{zaratiana2023gliner,
2 title={GLiNER: Generalist Model for Named Entity Recognition using Bidirectional Transformer},
3 author={Urchade Zaratiana and Nadi Tomeh and Pierre Holat and Thierry Charnois},
4 year={2023},
5 eprint={2311.08526},
6 archivePrefix={arXiv},
7 primaryClass={cs.CL}
8}
