Geo-BERT Pre-training Model for Query Rewriting in POI Search (2021.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to solve the word mismatch between queries and documents are often inadequate to integrate geographic information into the pre-training model. |
| Approach: | They propose to train a pre-training model to integrate semantics and geographic information in the pre-trained representations of POIs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves excellent accuracy on a wide range of real-world datasets of map services. |
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