UMBCLU at SemEval-2024 Task 1A and 1C: Semantic Textual Relatedness with and without machine translation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12730v2
• Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 00:53:29 GMT
• Title: UMBCLU at SemEval-2024 Task 1A and 1C: Semantic Textual Relatedness with and without machine translation
• Authors: Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Sai Vallurupalli,
• Abstract summary: The aim of SemEval-2024 Task 1 is to develop models for identifying semantic textual relatedness between two sentences. We develop two STR models, $textitTranSem$ and $textitFineSem$, for the supervised and cross-lingual settings.
• Score: 0.09208007322096534
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The aim of SemEval-2024 Task 1, "Semantic Textual Relatedness for African and Asian Languages" is to develop models for identifying semantic textual relatedness (STR) between two sentences using multiple languages (14 African and Asian languages) and settings (supervised, unsupervised, and cross-lingual). Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance on several natural language understanding tasks such as multilingual machine translation (MMT), semantic similarity (STS), and encoding sentence embeddings. Using a combination of LLMs that perform well on these tasks, we developed two STR models, $\textit{TranSem}$ and $\textit{FineSem}$, for the supervised and cross-lingual settings. We explore the effectiveness of several training methods and the usefulness of machine translation. We find that direct fine-tuning on the task is comparable to using sentence embeddings and translating to English leads to better performance for some languages. In the supervised setting, our model performance is better than the official baseline for 3 languages with the remaining 4 performing on par. In the cross-lingual setting, our model performance is better than the baseline for 3 languages (leading to $1^{st}$ place for Africaans and $2^{nd}$ place for Indonesian), is on par for 2 languages and performs poorly on the remaining 7 languages. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/dipta007/SemEval24-Task8.

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