Baseline Scores

  Random BERT SciBERT astroBERT
MCC score 0.1089 0.7405 0.8016 0.8104
overall f1 0.0166 0.4738 0.5595 0.5781
overall precision 0.0119 0.4779 0.5457 0.5511
overall recall 0.0274 0.4697 0.5741 0.6080
accuracy 0.7061 0.9188 0.9365 0.9389

Explanations

  • Random: a model that makes random label predictions matching the training set distribution.
  • BERT: Google’s BERT model finetuned to the task (arXiv).
  • SciBERT: AllenAI’s SciBERT model finetuned to the task (arXiv).
  • astroBERT: NASA ADS’ astroBERT model finetuned to the task (arXiv).

In depth comparison

Absolute precision and recall improvement per label class, from the astroBERT model over SciBERT. precision / recall improvement for astroBERT over SciBERT