Applying BERT to Document Retrieval with Birch

no code implementations • IJCNLP 2019 • Zeynep Akkalyoncu Yilmaz, Shengjin Wang, Wei Yang, Haotian Zhang, Jimmy Lin

We present Birch, a system that applies BERT to document retrieval via integration with the open-source Anserini information retrieval toolkit to demonstrate end-to-end search over large document collections.

Information Retrieval Retrieval

Cross-Domain Modeling of Sentence-Level Evidence for Document Retrieval

no code implementations • IJCNLP 2019 • Zeynep Akkalyoncu Yilmaz, Wei Yang, Haotian Zhang, Jimmy Lin

This paper applies BERT to ad hoc document retrieval on news articles, which requires addressing two challenges: relevance judgments in existing test collections are typically provided only at the document level, and documents often exceed the length that BERT was designed to handle.

Retrieval Sentence