AdminBERT 16GB: A French Language Model adapted to administrative documents
AdminBERT-16GB is a French language model adapted on a large corpus of 50 millions French administrative texts. It is a derivative of CamemBERT model, which is based on the RoBERTa architecture. AdminBERT-16GB is trained using the Whole Word Masking (WWM) objective with 30% mask rate for 3 epochs on 24 A100 GPUs. The dataset used for training is Adminset.
Evaluation
Regarding the fact that at date, there was no evaluation coprus available compose of French administrative documents, we decide to create our own on the NER (Named Entity Recognition) task.
Model Performance
| Model | P (%) | R (%) | F1 (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikineural-NER FT | 77.49 | 75.40 | 75.70 |
| NERmemBERT-Large FT | 77.43 | 78.38 | 77.13 |
| CamemBERT FT | 77.62 | 79.59 | 77.26 |
| NERmemBERT-Base FT | 77.99 | 79.59 | 78.34 |
| AdminBERT-NER 4G | 78.47 | 80.35 | 79.26 |
| AdminBERT-NER 16GB | 78.79 | 82.07 | 80.11 |
To evaluate each model, we performed five runs and averaged the results on the test set of Adminset-NER.
Citation
If you use this dataset, please cite the following paper:
@inproceedings{sebbag-etal-2025-adminset,
title = "{A}dmin{S}et and {A}dmin{BERT}: a Dataset and a Pre-trained Language Model to Explore the Unstructured Maze of {F}rench Administrative Documents",
author = "Sebbag, Thomas and
Quiniou, Solen and
Stucky, Nicolas and
Morin, Emmanuel",
editor = "Rambow, Owen and
Wanner, Leo and
Apidianaki, Marianna and
Al-Khalifa, Hend and
Eugenio, Barbara Di and
Schockaert, Steven",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
month = jan,
year = "2025",
address = "Abu Dhabi, UAE",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.27/",
pages = "392--406",
abstract = "In recent years, Pre-trained Language Models(PLMs) have been widely used to analyze various documents, playing a crucial role in Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, administrative texts have rarely been used in information extraction tasks, even though this resource is available as open data in many countries. Most of these texts contain many specific domain terms. Moreover, especially in France, they are unstructured because many administrations produce them without a standardized framework. Due to this fact, current language models do not process these documents correctly. In this paper, we propose AdminBERT, the first French pre-trained language models for the administrative domain. Since interesting information in such texts corresponds to named entities and the relations between them, we compare this PLM with general domain language models, fine-tuned on the Named Entity Recognition (NER) task applied to administrative texts, as well as to a Large Language Model (LLM) and to a language model with an architecture different from the BERT one. We show that taking advantage of a PLM for French administrative data increases the performance in the administrative and general domains, on these texts. We also release AdminBERT as well as AdminSet, the pre-training corpus of administrative texts in French and the subset AdminSet-NER, the first NER dataset consisting exclusively of administrative texts in French."
}