Financial sector and especially the insurance industry collect vast volumes of text on a daily basis and through multiple channels (their agents, customer care centers, emails, social networks, and web in general). The information collected includes policies, expert and health reports, claims and complaints, results of surveys, and relevant social media posts. It is difficult to effectively extract label, classify, and interpret the essential information from such varied and unstructured material. Therefore, the Insurance Industry is among the ones that can benefit from applying technologies for the intelligent analysis of free text through Natural Language Processing (NLP). In this paper, CRL+, a novel text classification model combining Contrastive Representation Learning (CRL) and Active Learning is proposed to handle the challenge of using semi-supervised learning for text classification. In this method, supervised (CRL) is used to train a RoBERTa transformer model to encode the textual data into a contrastive representation space and then classify using a classification layer. This (CRL)-based transformer model is used as the base model in the proposed Active Learning mechanism to classify all the data in an iterative manner. The proposed model is evaluated using unstructured obituary data with objective to determine the cause of the death from the data. This model is compared with the CRL model and an Active Learning model with the RoBERTa base model. The experiment shows that the proposed method can outperform both methods for this specific task.

本文提出了CRL+，一种新的文本分类模型，结合对比表示学习（CRL）和主动学习，旨在使用半监督学习处理保险业中的非结构化数据进行文本分类。该模型在使用死亡记录数据进行测试时表现优异，胜过使用CRL模型和基于RoBERTa模型的主动学习模型。

CRL+: 保险数据基于半监督的深度主动对比表示学习文本分类模型