Is Domain Adaptation Worth Your Investment? Comparing BERT and FinBERT on Financial Tasks

Bo Peng; Emmanuele Chersoni; Yu-yin Hsu; Chu-ren Huang

doi:10.18653/v1/2021.econlp-1.5

Is Domain Adaptation Worth Your Investment? Comparing BERT and FinBERT on Financial Tasks

Bo Peng, Emmanuele Chersoni, Yu-yin Hsu, Chu-ren Huang

Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

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Abstract

With the recent rise in popularity of Transformer models in Natural Language Processing, research efforts have been dedicated to the development of domain-adapted versions of BERT-like architectures. In this study, we focus on FinBERT, a Transformer model trained on text from the financial domain. By comparing its performances with the original BERT on a wide variety of financial text processing tasks, we found continual pretraining from the original model to be the more beneficial option. Domain-specific pretraining from scratch, conversely, seems to be less effective.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Economics and Natural Language Processing
Editors	Udo Hahn, Veronique Hoste, Amanda Stent
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL Anthology
Pages	37–44
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-954085-84-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.econlp-1.5
Publication status	Published - Nov 2021
Event	Workshop on Economics and Natural Language Processing - Barcelo Bavaro Convention Center, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic Duration: 11 Nov 2021 → 11 Nov 2021

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Workshop	Workshop on Economics and Natural Language Processing
Country/Territory	Dominican Republic
City	Punta Cana
Period	11/11/21 → 11/11/21

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Peng, B., Chersoni, E., Hsu, Y., & Huang, C. (2021). Is Domain Adaptation Worth Your Investment? Comparing BERT and FinBERT on Financial Tasks. In U. Hahn, V. Hoste, & A. Stent (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Economics and Natural Language Processing (pp. 37–44). Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL Anthology. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.econlp-1.5

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Is Domain Adaptation Worth Your Investment? Comparing BERT and FinBERT on Financial Tasks. / Peng, Bo; Chersoni, Emmanuele ; Hsu, Yu-yin et al.
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Economics and Natural Language Processing. ed. / Udo Hahn; Veronique Hoste; Amanda Stent. Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL Anthology, 2021. p. 37–44.

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