URL-BERT: Training Webpage Representations via Social Media Engagements

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16303v1
• Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 02:22:50 GMT
• Title: URL-BERT: Training Webpage Representations via Social Media Engagements
• Authors: Ayesha Qamar, Chetan Verma, Ahmed El-Kishky, Sumit Binnani, Sneha Mehta, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick
• Abstract summary: We introduce a new pre-training objective that can be used to adapt LMs to understand URLs and webpages. Our proposed framework consists of two steps: (1) scalable graph embeddings to learn shallow representations of URLs based on user engagement on social media. We experimentally demonstrate that our continued pre-training approach improves webpage understanding on a variety of tasks and Twitter internal and external benchmarks.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Understanding and representing webpages is crucial to online social networks where users may share and engage with URLs. Common language model (LM) encoders such as BERT can be used to understand and represent the textual content of webpages. However, these representations may not model thematic information of web domains and URLs or accurately capture their appeal to social media users. In this work, we introduce a new pre-training objective that can be used to adapt LMs to understand URLs and webpages. Our proposed framework consists of two steps: (1) scalable graph embeddings to learn shallow representations of URLs based on user engagement on social media and (2) a contrastive objective that aligns LM representations with the aforementioned graph-based representation. We apply our framework to the multilingual version of BERT to obtain the model URL-BERT. We experimentally demonstrate that our continued pre-training approach improves webpage understanding on a variety of tasks and Twitter internal and external benchmarks.

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