Ad-hoc Document Retrieval using Weak-Supervision with BERT and GPT2

Yosi Mass, Haggai Roitman


Abstract
We describe a weakly-supervised method for training deep learning models for the task of ad-hoc document retrieval. Our method is based on generative and discriminative models that are trained using weak-supervision just from the documents in the corpus. We present an end-to-end retrieval system that starts with traditional information retrieval methods, followed by two deep learning re-rankers. We evaluate our method on three different datasets: a COVID-19 related scientific literature dataset and two news datasets. We show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art methods; this without the need for the expensive process of manually labeling data.
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2020.emnlp-main.343
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Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
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November
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2020
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Online
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Bonnie Webber, Trevor Cohn, Yulan He, Yang Liu
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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4191–4197
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.343
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10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.343
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Yosi Mass and Haggai Roitman. 2020. Ad-hoc Document Retrieval using Weak-Supervision with BERT and GPT2. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 4191–4197, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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