CEDR: Contextualized Embeddings for Document Ranking
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This work investigates how two pretrained contextualized language models (ELMo and BERT) can be utilized for ad-hoc document ranking and proposes a joint approach that incorporates BERT's classification vector into existing neural models and shows that it outperforms state-of-the-art ad-Hoc ranking baselines.
Abstract
Although considerable attention has been given to neural ranking architectures recently, far less attention has been paid to the term representations that are used as input to these models. In this work, we investigate how two pretrained contextualized language models (ELMo and BERT) can be utilized for ad-hoc document ranking. Through experiments on TREC benchmarks, we find that several ex-sting neural ranking architectures can benefit from the additional context provided by contextualized language models. Furthermore, we propose a joint approach that incorporates BERT's classification vector into existing neural models and show that it outperforms state-of-the-art ad-hoc ranking baselines. We call this joint approach CEDR (Contextualized Embeddings for Document Ranking). We also address practical challenges in using these models for ranking, including the maximum input length imposed by BERT and runtime performance impacts of contextualized language models.
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