diff --git a/geval.cabal b/geval.cabal
index 40dfead..42ceba1 100644
--- a/geval.cabal
+++ b/geval.cabal
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ library
                      , GEval.CharMatch
                      , GEval.LineByLine
                      , GEval.BIO
+                     , GEval.ParseParams
                      , Data.Conduit.AutoDecompress
                      , Data.Conduit.SmartSource
                      , Paths_geval
@@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ library
                      , lzma-conduit
                      , Glob
                      , naturalcomp
+                     , containers
   default-language:    Haskell2010
 
 executable geval
@@ -91,6 +93,7 @@ test-suite geval-test
                      , conduit
                      , conduit-extra
                      , conduit
+                     , containers
   ghc-options:         -threaded -rtsopts -with-rtsopts=-N
   default-language:    Haskell2010
 
diff --git a/src/GEval/ParseParams.hs b/src/GEval/ParseParams.hs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..036e568
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/GEval/ParseParams.hs
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
+
+module GEval.ParseParams(parseParamsFromFilePath,OutputFileParsed(..))
+       where
+
+import Data.Map.Strict as M
+import Data.Text
+import Data.Attoparsec.Text
+
+import System.FilePath
+
+data OutputFileParsed = OutputFileParsed String (M.Map Text Text)
+                        deriving (Eq, Show)
+
+parseParamsFromFilePath :: FilePath -> OutputFileParsed
+parseParamsFromFilePath filePath = parseParamsFromBaseName fileBaseName
+  where fileBaseName = dropExtensions $ takeBaseName filePath
+
+parseParamsFromBaseName :: FilePath -> OutputFileParsed
+parseParamsFromBaseName baseName = case parseOnly (parser <* endOfInput) (pack baseName) of
+                                     (Right v) -> v
+                                     (Left _) -> OutputFileParsed baseName M.empty
+
+parser :: Parser OutputFileParsed
+parser = do
+  coreName <- many1 $ notChar '-'
+  "-"
+  paramList <- parseParamList
+  return $ OutputFileParsed coreName (M.fromList paramList)
+
+
+parseParamList :: Parser [(Text, Text)]
+parseParamList = parseParam `sepBy` (char ',')
+
+parseParam :: Parser (Text, Text)
+parseParam = do
+  param <- many1 $ satisfy (\c -> c /= '=' && c /= ',')
+  "="
+  val <- many1 $ notChar ','
+  pure $ (strip $ pack param, strip $ pack val)
diff --git a/test/Spec.hs b/test/Spec.hs
index 7a71977..061602f 100644
--- a/test/Spec.hs
+++ b/test/Spec.hs
@@ -10,11 +10,14 @@ import GEval.PrecisionRecall
 import GEval.ClusteringMetrics
 import GEval.BIO
 import GEval.LineByLine
+import GEval.ParseParams
 import Data.Attoparsec.Text
 import Options.Applicative
 import Data.Text
 import Text.EditDistance
 
+import Data.Map.Strict
+
 import Data.Conduit.List (consume)
 
 import qualified Test.HUnit as HU
@@ -315,6 +318,24 @@ main = hspec $ do
       readFromSmartSource "baz" "out.tsv" "test/files/foo.txt" `shouldReturn` ["foo\n"]
       readFromSmartSource "" "" "https://httpbin.org/robots.txt" `shouldReturn`
         ["User-agent: *\nDisallow: /deny\n"]
+  describe "parse model params from filenames" $ do
+    it "no params 1" $ do
+      parseParamsFromFilePath "out.tsv" `shouldBe` OutputFileParsed "out" Data.Map.Strict.empty
+    it "no params 2" $ do
+      parseParamsFromFilePath "out.tsv.xz" `shouldBe` OutputFileParsed "out" Data.Map.Strict.empty
+    it "no params 3" $ do
+      parseParamsFromFilePath "out-test-foo_bar.tsv" `shouldBe` OutputFileParsed "out-test-foo_bar" Data.Map.Strict.empty
+    it "one parameter" $ do
+      parseParamsFromFilePath "out-nb_epochs=123.tsv" `shouldBe`
+        OutputFileParsed "out" (Data.Map.Strict.fromList [("nb_epochs", "123")])
+    it "complex" $ do
+      parseParamsFromFilePath "out-nb_epochs = 12,foo=off, bar-baz =10.tsv" `shouldBe`
+        OutputFileParsed "out" (Data.Map.Strict.fromList [("nb_epochs", "12"),
+                                                          ("foo", "off"),
+                                                          ("bar-baz", "10")])
+
+
+
 
 readFromSmartSource :: FilePath -> FilePath -> String -> IO [String]
 readFromSmartSource defaultDir defaultFile specS = do