Evaluating and comparing different key phrase-based web scraping methods for training domain-specific fasttext models

Abstract: The demand for automation of simple tasks is constantly increasing. While some tasks are easy to automate because the logic is fixed and the process is streamlined, other tasks are harder because the performance of the task is heavily reliant on the judgment of a human expert. Matching a consultant to an offer from a client is one such task, in which case the expert is either a manager to the consultants or someone within HR at the company. One way to approach this task is to model the specific domain of interest using natural language processing. If we can capture the relationships between relevant skills and phrases within the specific domain, we could potentially use the resulting embeddings in a consultant to offer matching scheme. In this paper, we propose a key phrase-based web scraping approach to collect the data we need for a domain-specific corpus. To retrieve the key phrases needed as prompts for web scraping, we propose using the transformer-based library KeyBERT on limited domain-specific in house data belonging to the consultant firm B3 Indes, in order to retrieve the most important phrases in their respective contexts. Facebook's Word2vec based language model fasttext is then used on the processed corpus to create the fixed word embeddings. We also investigate numerous different approaches for selecting the right key phrases for web scraping in a human similarity comparison scheme, as well as comparisons to a larger pretrained general domain fasttext model. We show that utilizing key phrases for a domain-specific fasttext model could be beneficial compared to using a larger pretrained model. The results are not consistently conclusive under the current analytical framework. The results also indicate that KeyBERT is beneficial when selecting the key phrases compared to the randomized sampling of relevant phrases; however, the results are not conclusive.