AAdaM at SemEval-2024 Task 1: Augmentation and Adaptation for Multilingual Semantic Textual Relatedness

Miaoran Zhang, Mingyang Wang, Jesujoba Alabi, Dietrich Klakow


Abstract
This paper presents our system developed for the SemEval-2024 Task 1: Semantic Textual Relatedness for African and Asian Languages. The shared task aims at measuring the semantic textual relatedness between pairs of sentences, with a focus on a range of under-represented languages. In this work, we propose using machine translation for data augmentation to address the low-resource challenge of limited training data. Moreover, we apply task-adaptive pre-training on unlabeled task data to bridge the gap between pre-training and task adaptation. For model training, we investigate both full fine-tuning and adapter-based tuning, and adopt the adapter framework for effective zero-shot cross-lingual transfer. We achieve competitive results in the shared task: our system performs the best among all ranked teams in both subtask A (supervised learning) and subtask C (cross-lingual transfer).
Anthology ID:
2024.semeval-1.114
Volume:
Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024)
Month:
June
Year:
2024
Address:
Mexico City, Mexico
Editors:
Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Giovanni Da San Martino, Sara Rosenthal, Aiala Rosá
Venue:
SemEval
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SIGLEX
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
800–810
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2024.semeval-1.114
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.semeval-1.114
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Miaoran Zhang, Mingyang Wang, Jesujoba Alabi, and Dietrich Klakow. 2024. AAdaM at SemEval-2024 Task 1: Augmentation and Adaptation for Multilingual Semantic Textual Relatedness. In Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024), pages 800–810, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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AAdaM at SemEval-2024 Task 1: Augmentation and Adaptation for Multilingual Semantic Textual Relatedness (Zhang et al., SemEval 2024)
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