---
language:
  - th
license: mit
library_name: transformers
tags:
  - token-classification
  - ner
  - thai
  - phayathaibert
  - job-posting
  - apple-silicon
datasets:
  - chayuto/thai-job-ner-dataset
metrics:
  - f1
  - precision
  - recall
pipeline_tag: token-classification
model-index:
  - name: thai-job-ner-phayathaibert
    results:
      - task:
          type: token-classification
          name: Named Entity Recognition
        metrics:
          - name: F1 (real-world)
            type: f1
            value: 0.975
          - name: F1 (mixed test)
            type: f1
            value: 0.929
          - name: Precision
            type: precision
            value: 0.960
          - name: Recall
            type: recall
            value: 0.990
---

# Thai Job NER — Fine-tuned PhayaThaiBERT (v2: Mixed Training)

Named Entity Recognition model for extracting structured HR data from informal Thai job postings (e.g., Facebook groups, Line chats). Fine-tuned from [PhayaThaiBERT](https://huggingface.co/clicknext/phayathaibert) (~122M params).

**v2 update:** Trained on style-matched synthetic + real-world data with upsampling. Real-world F1 improved from 0.143 → **0.975**.

## Model Description

This model extracts 7 entity types from Thai job-related text:

| Entity | Description | Example |
|--------|-------------|---------|
| `HARD_SKILL` | Skills or procedures | ดูแลผู้สูงอายุ, CPR, Python |
| `PERSON` | Names | คุณสมชาย, พี่แจน |
| `LOCATION` | Places | สีลม, ลาดพร้าว, บางนา |
| `COMPENSATION` | Pay amounts | 18,000 บาท/เดือน |
| `EMPLOYMENT_TERMS` | Job structure | part-time, กะกลางวัน |
| `CONTACT` | Phone, Line, email | 081-234-5678, @care123 |
| `DEMOGRAPHIC` | Age, gender | อายุ 25-40, หญิง |

## Usage

```python
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForTokenClassification, pipeline

model_name = "chayuto/thai-job-ner-phayathaibert"
ner = pipeline("ner", model=model_name, aggregation_strategy="simple")

text = "รับสมัครคนดูแลผู้สูงอายุ ย่านสีลม เงินเดือน 18,000 บาท โทร 081-234-5678"
results = ner(text)
for entity in results:
    print(f"{entity['entity_group']}: {entity['word']} ({entity['score']:.2%})")
```

## Training

- **Base model:** `clicknext/phayathaibert` (CamemBERT architecture, ~122M params, XLM-R-derived vocabulary)
- **Training data:** 619 posts (510 style-matched synthetic + 54 real-world posts upsampled 5x), silver labels from GPT-4o, fuzzy-aligned to IOB2
- **Real data proportion:** 34.6% (key factor for real-world performance)
- **Hardware:** Apple Silicon MPS backend, FP32
- **Hyperparameters:** LR=3e-5, warmup=0.1, batch=2, grad_accum=4, 10 epochs, gradient checkpointing, frozen embeddings
- **Training time:** ~35 min

### Data Pipeline

Raw Thai text + GPT-4o entity extractions → fuzzy alignment with rapidfuzz + pythainlp TCC boundary snapping → subword token mapping via offset_mapping → IOB2-formatted HuggingFace Dataset.

### Training Strategy

Style-matched synthetic data (v3) was generated to mimic real-world post characteristics: varied formatting, code-switching, informal language. Real-world posts were upsampled 5x to achieve a 20-35% real data proportion — the sweet spot identified through systematic experiments (see below).

## Evaluation

### Real-World Test Set (8 held-out real posts, 98 entities)

| Metric | Score |
|--------|-------|
| **F1** | **0.975** |
| Precision | 0.960 |
| Recall | 0.990 |

### Real-World Per-Entity F1

| Entity | F1 | Precision | Recall | Support |
|--------|-----|-----------|--------|---------|
| COMPENSATION | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 15 |
| CONTACT | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 10 |
| DEMOGRAPHIC | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 14 |
| LOCATION | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 8 |
| PERSON | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 3 |
| HARD_SKILL | 0.973 | 0.947 | 1.000 | 36 |
| EMPLOYMENT_TERMS | 0.880 | 0.846 | 0.917 | 12 |

5 of 7 entity types achieve **perfect F1** on real-world data.

### Mixed Test Set (78 examples)

| Metric | Score |
|--------|-------|
| **F1** | **0.929** |
| Precision | 0.915 |
| Recall | 0.944 |

### Experiment History: Closing the Real-World Gap

| Version | Training Data | Real-World F1 | Key Insight |
|---------|--------------|---------------|-------------|
| v1 (synthetic-only) | 1,253 synthetic | 0.143 | Synthetic alone fails on real data |
| v1 (real-only) | 37 real posts | 0.558 | Small but 4x more effective per sample |
| v1 (mixed, 4.1% real) | 1,057 mixed | 0.935 | Even a few real posts help dramatically |
| **v2 (v3+real5x, 34.6% real)** | **619 mixed** | **0.975** | **Style-matched synthetic + upsampling** |

Key finding: real data proportion is the #1 factor. Style-matched synthetic data is 3x more efficient than generic synthetic data.

## Links

- **Model:** [chayuto/thai-job-ner-phayathaibert](https://huggingface.co/chayuto/thai-job-ner-phayathaibert)
- **WangchanBERTa variant:** [chayuto/thai-job-ner-wangchanberta](https://huggingface.co/chayuto/thai-job-ner-wangchanberta)
- **Dataset:** [chayuto/thai-job-ner-dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/chayuto/thai-job-ner-dataset)
- **Source Code:** [github.com/chayuto/thai-job-nlp-ner](https://github.com/chayuto/thai-job-nlp-ner)

## Limitations

- Real-world evaluation is based on 8 held-out posts (98 entities) — confidence intervals are wide
- EMPLOYMENT_TERMS remains the weakest entity (F1=0.880) — boundary ambiguity in schedule/contract terms
- Embeddings were frozen during training (MPS memory constraint) — unfreezing on a larger GPU may yield further gains
- 256 token max sequence length (covers >95% of real posts)
- Larger model file size due to 248K vocabulary (vs WangchanBERTa's 25K)

## Technical Notes

- **FP16 is broken on MPS** — always use FP32 for Apple Silicon training
- PhayaThaiBERT's 248K vocab (XLM-R-derived) requires frozen embeddings + gradient checkpointing to fit on 18GB MPS
- Uses `offset_mapping` for tokenizer-agnostic subword-to-character alignment
- Thai Character Cluster (TCC) boundary snapping prevents Unicode grapheme splitting during alignment
- Real data upsampling (5-10x) is a simple, effective technique for low-resource scenarios

## License

MIT