Zero-Shot Multi-Label Topic Inference with Sentence Encoders

04/14/2023

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by   Souvika Sarkar, et al.

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Sentence encoders have indeed been shown to achieve superior performances for many downstream text-mining tasks and, thus, claimed to be fairly general. Inspired by this, we performed a detailed study on how to leverage these sentence encoders for the "zero-shot topic inference" task, where the topics are defined/provided by the users in real-time. Extensive experiments on seven different datasets demonstrate that Sentence-BERT demonstrates superior generality compared to other encoders, while Universal Sentence Encoder can be preferred when efficiency is a top priority.