Cross-Domain Robustness of Transformer-based Keyphrase Generation

Abstract

Modern models for text generation show state-of-the-art results in many natural language processing tasks. In this work, we explore the effectiveness of abstractive text summarization models for keyphrase selection. A list of keyphrases is an important element of a text in databases and repositories of electronic documents. In our experiments, abstractive text summarization models fine-tuned for keyphrase generation show quite high results for a target text corpus. However, in most cases, the zero-shot performance on other corpora and domains is significantly lower. We investigate cross-domain limitations of abstractive text summarization models for keyphrase generation. We present an evaluation of the fine-tuned BART models for the keyphrase selection task across six benchmark corpora for keyphrase extraction including scientific texts from two domains and news texts. We explore the role of transfer learning between different domains to improve the BART model performance on small text corpora. Our experiments show that preliminary fine-tuning on out-of-domain corpora can be effective under conditions of a limited number of samples.

arXiv commentPresented at the XXV International Conference "Data Analytics and Management in Data Intensive Domains" (DAMDID/RCDL), October 2023

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