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 [camembert-ner] is a NER model that was fine-tuned from camemBERT on wikiner-fr dataset.
 Model was trained on wikiner-fr dataset (~170 634  sentences).
-Model was validated on emails/chat data and surperformed other models on this type of data specifically. 
+Model was validated on emails/chat data and overperformed other models on this type of data specifically. 
 In particular the model seems to work better on entity that don't start with an upper case.