A joint Word Segmentation (WS) and Part-of-Speech (POS) Tagging model for the Myanmar (Burmese) language, built on top of MyanBERTa-Legal-Finetuned with an Asymmetric BiLSTM + Dual CRF head architecture.

Model Architecture

MyanBERTa-Legal (RoBERTa-based, 768-dim)
+ Position Embedding (64-dim, syllable position from sentence end)
→ Concatenated (832-dim)
→ Asymmetric BiLSTM:
    Forward LSTM:  832 → 256
    Backward LSTM: 832 → 512
→ Concatenated output (768-dim)
→ Dual Heads:
    Head 1 (WS):  Linear(768 → 4)  + CRF  [B, I, E, S]
    Head 2 (POS): Linear(768 → 68) + CRF  [B/I/E/S-UPOS]

Total Parameters: 112,858,104
Mixed Precision: FP16 (AMP)
Training Hardware: 2× NVIDIA Tesla T4 (DataParallel)

Training Data

Dataset: finalanalyzedposxpos.conllu
Format: CoNLL-U, converted to syllable-level BIES tags
Size: 103,833 sentences | 3,124,305 syllables
Split: 80/10/10 (Train/Val/Test)
- Train: 83,066 sentences
- Val: 10,383 sentences
- Test: 10,384 sentences

Evaluation Results (Test Set)

Task	Precision	Recall	F1
Word Segmentation (WS)	0.9222	0.9379	0.9300
POS Tagging	0.8702	0.8965	0.8832
Combined (0.4×WS + 0.6×POS)	—	—	0.9019

POS Tagging — Per-Class F1 (Test Set)

POS Tag	Precision	Recall	F1	Support
ADJ	0.7516	0.7925	0.7715	4,665
ADP	0.9351	0.9668	0.9507	25,367
ADV	0.7120	0.7646	0.7374	3,233
AUX	0.5961	0.6267	0.6110	1,776
CCONJ	0.8390	0.7859	0.8116	3,713
DET	0.8960	0.8870	0.8915	602
INTJ	0.5890	0.8600	0.6992	50
NOUN	0.8332	0.8651	0.8489	48,068
NUM	0.9370	0.9530	0.9449	4,869
PART	0.9118	0.9325	0.9220	44,738
PRON	0.9175	0.9318	0.9246	4,308
PROPN	0.6595	0.7156	0.6864	1,846
PUNCT	0.9803	0.9900	0.9852	17,331
SCONJ	0.7150	0.8154	0.7619	1,658
SYM	0.8269	0.8113	0.8190	53
VERB	0.8221	0.8497	0.8357	29,721
X	0.3845	0.4184	0.4007	521

Training Details

Base Model: sithu015/MyanBERTa-legal-finetuned
Tokenizer: MyanBERTa (RoBERTa-based, syllable-level)
Max Sequence Length: 300
Batch Size: 48 (total, 2 GPUs)
Epochs Trained: 12 (early stop, patience=3)
Best Val Combined F1: 0.9010 (Epoch 9)
Total Training Time: ~7.8 hours
Optimizer: AdamW
- BERT layers: lr = 2e-5
- BiLSTM / heads / CRF: lr = 1e-3
Scheduler: Linear warmup (10% steps)
Loss: CRF loss + 0.3 × Cross-Entropy auxiliary loss (both heads)
Class Weighting: WeightedRandomSampler (4× boost for rare POS tags: AUX, INTJ, SYM, PROPN, SCONJ, DET, X)

Training Progress (Validation Combined F1 per Epoch)

Epoch	Loss	WS F1	POS F1	Combined F1
1	73.6700	0.8871	0.7974	0.8333
2	25.0627	0.9055	0.8418	0.8673
3	18.7039	0.9180	0.8636	0.8853
4	15.6097	0.9213	0.8656	0.8879
5	13.4530	0.9249	0.8718	0.8930
6	11.9508	0.9268	0.8762	0.8964
7	10.8137	0.9283	0.8787	0.8985
8	9.6801	0.9287	0.8811	0.9001
9	8.9287	0.9293	0.8821	0.9010 ✓ Best
10	8.2989	0.9290	0.8794	0.8992
11	10.0370	0.9231	0.8679	0.8900
12	12.8928	0.9208	0.8631	0.8862

Usage

This model uses a custom architecture and is not compatible with the standard transformers pipeline(). You need the JointSegPosModel class and a syllable segmentation function. Below is an example using the model files provided in this repository.

python

import torch
import json
from transformers import AutoTokenizer

# --- Define syllable_segment (example: split on space or use your own segmenter) ---
def syllable_segment(text):
    """Split text into syllable-level tokens. Replace with your actual syllable segmenter."""
    return text.split()

# Load label maps
with open("wsid2label.json") as f:
    wsid2label = {int(k): v for k, v in json.load(f).items()}
with open("posid2label.json") as f:
    posid2label = {int(k): v for k, v in json.load(f).items()}
with open("wslabel2id.json") as f:
    wslabel2id = json.load(f)
with open("poslabel2id.json") as f:
    poslabel2id = json.load(f)

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("UCSYNLP/MyanBERTa")

# Build model (JointSegPosModel class required from training code)
model = JointSegPosModel(
    "sithu015/MyanBERTa-legal-finetuned",
    num_ws_labels=len(wslabel2id),
    num_pos_labels=len(poslabel2id)
)
model.load_state_dict(torch.load("bestmodel.pt", map_location="cpu"))
model.eval()

# Tokenize and predict
syllables = syllable_segment("ကို၏ နာမည် မှာ ကိုကို ဖြစ်သည်")  # syllable-level list
encoding = tokenizer(
    syllables,
    is_split_into_words=True,
    return_tensors="pt",
    truncation=True,
    max_length=300,
    padding="max_length"
)

with torch.no_grad():
    ws_preds, pos_preds = model(encoding["input_ids"], encoding["attention_mask"])

Files

File	Description
`bestmodel.pt`	Trained model weights (PyTorch)
`wslabel2id.json`	WS label → ID mapping
`wsid2label.json`	WS ID → label mapping
`poslabel2id.json`	POS label → ID mapping
`posid2label.json`	POS ID → label mapping
`modelmetadata.json`	Training metadata and results
`config.json`	Model configuration

Citation

If you use this model, please cite:

bibtex

@misc{sithu015-myanberta-bilstm-crf-joint-2026,
  author    = {Sithu Aung},
  title     = {MyanBERTa-BiLSTM-CRF-Joint: Joint Word Segmentation and POS Tagging for Myanmar},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/sithu015/MyanBERTa-BiLSTM-CRF-Joint}
}

License

Apache 2.0