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+# MEL: Legal Spanish Language Model
+## Model Card for MEL
+**Model Name:** MEL (Modelo de Español Legal)
+**Model Type:** Encoder-only Transformer (XLM-RoBERTa-large continuation)
+**Language:** Spanish
+**Domain:** Legal Texts
+**License:** [Specify License]
+**Model Link:** [Hugging Face Repository Link]
+---
+## Overview
+MEL is a transformer-based language model designed specifically for processing and understanding Spanish legal texts. Built upon **XLM-RoBERTa-large**, it is further pre-trained on a **large corpus of legal documents**, including the **Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE), parliamentary transcripts, court rulings, and other legislative texts**. MEL significantly improves the performance of legal NLP tasks, such as **legal text classification** and **named entity recognition (NER)**.
+---
+## Model Description
+### Architecture
+- **Base Model:** XLM-RoBERTa-large
+- **Training Objective:** Masked Language Modeling (MLM)
+- **Pre-training Strategy:** Continued pre-training on Spanish legal texts
+- **Context Window:** 512 tokens
 ### Training Data
+MEL is trained on a **curated corpus** of **5.52 million legal texts (~92.7GB)** sourced from:
+- **BOE (Boletín Oficial del Estado)**
+- **Parliamentary records**
+- **Court rulings**
+- **Legal statutes**
+To ensure high-quality text processing, documents were preprocessed by **removing unwanted characters, normalizing spacing, chunking texts, and filtering non-Spanish content**.
+### Training Configuration
+- **GPU:** NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe
+- **Training Time:** 13.9 days (~7 days per epoch, 2 epochs total)
+- **Optimizer:** AdamW (β1=0.9, β2=0.98, ϵ=1e-6)
+- **Batch Size:** 16 (Gradient Accumulation: 4, Effective Batch Size: 64)
+- **Scheduler:** Cosine Learning Rate Scheduler
+- **Warmup Steps:** 8% of total training steps
+- **Learning Rate:** 1e-4
+- **Weight Decay:** 0.01
+---
 ## Evaluation
+MEL was benchmarked on two datasets:
+### **1. Multieurlex (Spanish Legal Texts Classification)**
+- **Task:** Multilabel classification of EU laws
+- **Performance:**
+  - **MEL achieves an F1 score of 0.8025**, outperforming **XLM-RoBERTa-Large (0.7962)**, **Legal-XLM-RoBERTa (0.7933)**, and **RoBERTalex (0.7890)**.
+### **2. Private Multiclass Classification Dataset**
+- **Task:** Classify legal documents into one of 9 categories
+- **Performance:**
+  - **MEL achieves an F1 score of 0.9260**, surpassing **XLM-RoBERTa-Large (0.9103)**, **Legal-XLM-RoBERTa (0.8935)**, and **RoBERTalex (0.7007)**.
+- **Small Data Learning:** MEL shows better generalization even with limited training data, achieving an **F1 score of 0.8812** in early training compared to the next best **0.7803**.
+---
+## Model Performance
+### **Key Findings**
+✔ **Outperforms general multilingual models (XLM-RoBERTa) and other domain-specific models in Spanish legal text classification.**
+✔ **Requires less fine-tuning, demonstrating strong domain adaptation from the pre-training phase.**
+✔ **Shows high sample efficiency, achieving strong results even with limited training data.**
+### **Limitations**
+⚠ **Not evaluated on NER or token-level tasks due to the lack of annotated Spanish legal datasets.**
+⚠ **Trained only on Spanish legal texts, so performance in multilingual legal contexts is unknown.**
+⚠ **Potential bias in legal terminology due to corpus selection.**
+---
+## How to Use
+```python
+from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer
+tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("your-hf-repo/mel")
+model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("your-hf-repo/mel")
+text = "El artículo 45 de la Constitución establece que..."
+inputs = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt")
+outputs = model(**inputs)
+```
+For fine-tuning on specific legal tasks, use `Trainer` from Hugging Face’s `transformers` library.
+---
+## Future Work
+- Develop **NER models** for **legal entity extraction**.
+- Expand dataset to cover **more diverse legal domains** (e.g., contracts, case law, administrative procedures).
+- Fine-tune on additional **downstream tasks** (question answering, legal summarization, information retrieval).
+- Improve **bias detection and mitigation strategies**.
+---
+## Citation
+If you use MEL, please cite:
+```
+@misc{sánchez2025mellegalspanishlanguage,
+      title={MEL: Legal Spanish Language Model},
+      author={David Betancur Sánchez and Nuria Aldama García and Álvaro Barbero Jiménez and Marta Guerrero Nieto and Patricia Marsà Morales and Nicolás Serrano Salas and Carlos García Hernán and Pablo Haya Coll and Elena Montiel Ponsoda and Pablo Calleja Ibáñez},
+      year={2025},
+      eprint={2501.16011},
+      archivePrefix={arXiv},
+      primaryClass={cs.CL},
+      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16011},
+}
+```
+---
+## Acknowledgements
+This work was funded by the **INESData project**, supported by the **Ministry for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service (NextGenerationEU)**.
+**Contributors:**
+- **David Betancur Sánchez**, Instituto de Ingeniería del Conocimiento (IIC)
+- **Nuria Aldama García**, Instituto de Ingeniería del Conocimiento (IIC)
+- **Álvaro Barbero Jiménez**, Instituto de Ingeniería del Conocimiento (IIC)
+- **Marta Guerrero Nieto**, Instituto de Ingeniería del Conocimiento (IIC)
+- **Patricia Marsà Morales**, Instituto de Ingeniería del Conocimiento (IIC)
+- **Nicolás Serrano Salas**, Instituto de Ingeniería del Conocimiento (IIC)
+- **Carlos García Hernán**, Instituto de Ingeniería del Conocimiento (IIC)
+- **Pablo Haya Coll**, Instituto de Ingeniería del Conocimiento (IIC)
+- **Elena Montiel Ponsoda**, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
+- **Pablo Calleja Ibáñez**, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
+---
+## Contact
+For questions or collaborations, contact **david.betancur@iic.uam.es**.