This model predicts the punctuation of Dutch texts. We developed it to restore the punctuation of transcribed spoken language. This model was trained on the Europarl Dataset . The model restores the following punctuation markers: "." "," "?" "-" ":"

Sample Code

We provide a simple python package that allows you to process text of any length.

Install

To get started install the package from pypi :

pip install deepmultilingualpunctuation

Restore Punctuation

from deepmultilingualpunctuation import PunctuationModel
model = PunctuationModel(model="oliverguhr/fullstop-dutch-punctuation-prediction")
text = "hervatting van de zitting ik verklaar de zitting van het europees parlement die op vrijdag 17 december werd onderbroken te zijn hervat"
result = model.restore_punctuation(text)
print(result)

output

hervatting van de zitting ik verklaar de zitting van het europees parlement, die op vrijdag 17 december werd onderbroken, te zijn hervat.

Predict Labels

from deepmultilingualpunctuation import PunctuationModel

model = PunctuationModel(model="oliverguhr/fullstop-dutch-punctuation-prediction")
text = "hervatting van de zitting ik verklaar de zitting van het europees parlement die op vrijdag 17 december werd onderbroken te zijn hervat"
clean_text = model.preprocess(text)
labled_words = model.predict(clean_text)
print(labled_words)

output

[['hervatting', '0', 0.9999777], ['van', '0', 0.99998415], ['de', '0', 0.999987], ['zitting', '0', 0.9992779], ['ik', '0', 0.9999889], ['verklaar', '0', 0.99998295], ['de', '0', 0.99998856], ['zitting', '0', 0.9999895], ['van', '0', 0.9999902], ['het', '0', 0.999992], ['europees', '0', 0.9999924], ['parlement', ',', 0.9915131], ['die', '0', 0.99997807], ['op', '0', 0.9999882], ['vrijdag', '0', 0.9999746], ['17', '0', 0.99998784], ['december', '0', 0.99997866], ['werd', '0', 0.9999888], ['onderbroken', ',', 0.99287957], ['te', '0', 0.9999864], ['zijn', '0', 0.99998176], ['hervat', '.', 0.99762934]]

Results

The performance differs for the single punctuation markers as hyphens and colons, in many cases, are optional and can be substituted by either a comma or a full stop. The model achieves the following F1 scores:

How to cite us

@misc{https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2301.03319,
  doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2301.03319},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03319},
  author = {Vandeghinste, Vincent and Guhr, Oliver},
  keywords = {Computation and Language (cs.CL), Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI), FOS: Computer and information sciences, FOS: Computer and information sciences, I.2.7},
  title = {FullStop:Punctuation and Segmentation Prediction for Dutch with Transformers},
  publisher = {arXiv},
  year = {2023},  
  copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International}
}