2021
ConvFiT: Conversational Fine-Tuning of Pretrained Language Models
EMNLP 2021main
Transformer-based language models (LMs) pretrained on large text collections are proven to store a wealth of semantic knowledge. However, 1) they are not effective as sentence encoders when used off-the-shelf, and 2) thus typically lag behind conversationally pretrained (e.g., via response selection…