Abstract
Recent studies on domain-specific BERT models show that effectiveness on downstream tasks can be improved when models are pretrained on in-domain data. Often, the pretraining data used in these models are selected based on their subject matter, e.g., biology or computer science. Given the range of applications using social media text, and its unique language variety, we pretrain two models on tweets and forum text respectively, and empirically demonstrate the effectiveness of these two resources. In addition, we investigate how similarity measures can be used to nominate in-domain pretraining data. We publicly release our pretrained models at https://bit.ly/35RpTf0.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.findings-emnlp.151
- Volume:
- Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Online
- Editors:
- Trevor Cohn, Yulan He, Yang Liu
- Venue:
- Findings
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1675–1681
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.findings-emnlp.151
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2020.findings-emnlp.151
- Cite (ACL):
- Xiang Dai, Sarvnaz Karimi, Ben Hachey, and Cecile Paris. 2020. Cost-effective Selection of Pretraining Data: A Case Study of Pretraining BERT on Social Media. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, pages 1675–1681, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Cost-effective Selection of Pretraining Data: A Case Study of Pretraining BERT on Social Media (Dai et al., Findings 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-5/2020.findings-emnlp.151.pdf
- Data
- 2010 i2b2/VA, GLUE, SST