clarin-pl/combo-nlp-xlm-roberta-base-italian-isdt-ud2.17

COMBO-NLP Model for Italian

Model Description

This is a Italian-language model based on COMBO-NLP, an open-source natural language preprocessing system. It performs:

• sentence segmentation (via LAMBO)
• tokenisation (via LAMBO)
• part-of-speech tagging
• morphological analysis
• lemmatisation
• dependency parsing

The Italian model uses FacebookAI/xlm-roberta-base as its base encoder and is trained on UD_Italian-ISDT (UD v2.17).

Evaluation

Evaluation was performed on the UD_Italian-ISDT test split using the standard CoNLL 2018 eval script.

Two evaluation rows are reported:

• Full-text (F1): raw text is segmented by LAMBO, then parsed and compared against gold — measures end-to-end pipeline performance including segmentation quality.
• Aligned accuracy: accuracy on correctly segmented (aligned) tokens — measures parsing quality on tokens that were correctly identified by the segmenter.

Morphosyntactic Tagging

Metric	Tokens	Sentences	Words	UPOS	XPOS	UFeats	AllTags	Lemmas
Full-text (F1)	99.77	99.07	99.64	98.46	98.38	97.89	97.47	98.41
Aligned accuracy	0.00	0.00	0.00	98.82	98.73	98.24	97.81	98.76

Dependency Parsing

Metric	UAS	LAS	CLAS	MLAS	BLEX
Full-text (F1)	95.02	93.74	90.89	87.63	88.96
Aligned accuracy	95.36	94.08	91.17	87.90	89.23

Usage

Install the library from PyPI (assuming you have a virtual environment created):

pip install combo-nlp

Install the Lambo segmenter - only needed when passing raw text strings to COMBO:

pip install --index-url https://pypi.clarin-pl.eu/ lambo

from combo import COMBO

# Load a pre-trained model with corresponding Lambo segmenter
nlp = COMBO("Italian")

# Parse raw text (handles sentence splitting + tokenization)
result = nlp("La veloce volpe marrone salta sopra il cane pigro.")

# Inspect results
for sentence in result:
    for token in sentence:
        print(f"{token.form:<15} {token.lemma:<15} {token.upos:<8} head={token.head}  {token.deprel}")

Refer to the COMBO-NLP documentation for installation and usage instructions:

• https://gitlab.clarin-pl.eu/syntactic-tools/combo-nlp
• https://gitlab.clarin-pl.eu/syntactic-tools/lambo

Citation

If you use this model, please cite:

Ulewicz, M., Jabłońska, M., Klimaszewski, M., Przybyła, P., Pszenny, Ł., Rybak, P., Wiącek, M., & Wróblewska, A. (2026). COMBO-NLP Models Trained on UD v2.17. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19650523

@software{combo_nlp_2026,
  author    = {Ulewicz, Michał and Jabłońska, Maja and Klimaszewski, Mateusz and Przybyła, Piotr and Pszenny, Łukasz and Rybak, Piotr and Wiącek, Martyna and Wróblewska, Alina},
  title     = {{COMBO-NLP} Models Trained on {UD} v2.17},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.19650523},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19650523}
}

Resources

• COMBO-NLP: https://gitlab.clarin-pl.eu/syntactic-tools/combo-nlp
• LAMBO: https://gitlab.clarin-pl.eu/syntactic-tools/lambo
• UD_Italian-ISDT: https://github.com/UniversalDependencies/UD_Italian-ISDT