mDAPT: Multilingual Domain Adaptive Pretraining in a Single Model

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Domain adaptive pretraining, i.e. the continued unsupervised pretraining of a language model on domain-specific text, improves the modelling of text for downstream tasks within the domain. Numerous real-world applications are based on domain-specific text, e.g. working with financial or biomedical documents, and these applications often need to support multiple languages. However, large-scale domain-specific multilingual pretraining data for such scenarios can be difficult to obtain, due to regulations, legislation, or simply a lack of language- and domain-specific text. One solution is to train a single multilingual model, taking advantage of the data available in as many languages as possible. In this work, we explore the benefits of domain adaptive pretraining with a focus on adapting to multiple languages within a specific domain. We propose different techniques to compose pretraining corpora that enable a language model to both become domain-specific and multilingual. Evaluation on nine domain-specific datasets—for biomedical named entity recognition and financial sentence classification—covering seven different languages show that a single multilingual domain-specific model can outperform the general multilingual model, and performs close to its monolingual counterpart. This finding holds across two different pretraining methods, adapter-based pretraining and full model pretraining.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021
ForlagAssociation for Computational Linguistics
Publikationsdato2021
Sider3404-3418
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2021
BegivenhedFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021 - Punta Cana, Dominikanske Republik, Den
Varighed: 1 nov. 20211 nov. 2021

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KonferenceFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021
LandDominikanske Republik, Den
ByPunta Cana
Periode01/11/202101/11/2021

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