Fix run_ner script (#8664)

* Fix run_ner script

* Pin datasets

examples/requirements.txt

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ streamlit
 elasticsearch
 nltk
 pandas
-datasets
+datasets >= 1.1.3
 fire
 pytest
 conllu

examples/token-classification/run_ner.py

@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@
 """
 Fine-tuning the library models for token classification.
 """
-# You can also adapt this script on your own token classification task and datasets. Pointers for this are left as comments.
+# You can also adapt this script on your own token classification task and datasets. Pointers for this are left as
+# comments.
 
 import logging
 import os
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from typing import Optional
 
 import numpy as np
-from datasets import load_dataset
+from datasets import ClassLabel, load_dataset
 from seqeval.metrics import accuracy_score, f1_score, precision_score, recall_score
 
 import transformers
@@ -198,12 +199,17 @@ def main():
 
     if training_args.do_train:
         column_names = datasets["train"].column_names
+        features = datasets["train"].features
     else:
         column_names = datasets["validation"].column_names
-    text_column_name = "words" if "words" in column_names else column_names[0]
-    label_column_name = data_args.task_name if data_args.task_name in column_names else column_names[1]
+        features = datasets["validation"].features
+    text_column_name = "tokens" if "tokens" in column_names else column_names[0]
+    label_column_name = (
+        f"{data_args.task_name}_tags" if f"{data_args.task_name}_tags" in column_names else column_names[1]
+    )
 
-    # Labeling (this part will be easier when https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/issues/797 is solved)
+    # In the event the labels are not a `Sequence[ClassLabel]`, we will need to go through the dataset to get the
+    # unique labels.
     def get_label_list(labels):
         unique_labels = set()
         for label in labels:
@@ -212,6 +218,11 @@ def main():
         label_list.sort()
         return label_list
 
+    if isinstance(features[label_column_name].feature, ClassLabel):
+        label_list = features[label_column_name].feature.names
+        # No need to convert the labels since they are already ints.
+        label_to_id = {i: i for i in range(len(label_list))}
+    else:
         label_list = get_label_list(datasets["train"][label_column_name])
         label_to_id = {l: i for i, l in enumerate(label_list)}
     num_labels = len(label_list)