Ali Ildan

From Messy Country Names to ISO 3166 Codes: A Small Model That Abstains, and When a Lexicon Is Enough

Company registers and forms record countries as free text: in any language, misspelled, abbreviated, historical, or not a place at all. We present CountryCode-Decide, a 74.7 MB open-weight model (mmBERT-small with a country head and a US-state head, 8-bit ONNX) that maps such a s...

From Messy Country Names to ISO 3166 Codes: A Small Model That Abstains, and When a Lexicon Is Enough

Company registers and forms record countries as free text: in any language, misspelled, abbreviated, historical, or not a place at all. CountryCode-Decide is a 74.7 MB open model (mmBERT-small, two heads, 8-bit ONNX) that maps such a string, read with its field and register, to a...