Our Recurrent +ELMo model uses the language model from BIBREF9 to provide contextualized embeddings to the baseline model outlined above, as recommended by the authors.

Our OpenAI GPT model fine-tunes the 12 layer 768 dimensional uni-directional transformer from BIBREF27 , which has been pre-trained as a language model on the Books corpus BIBREF36 . 
 Question: did they use other pretrained language models besides bert?
Yes