The CogALex Shared Task on Monolingual and Multilingual Identification of Semantic Relations

Rong Xiang, Emmanuele Chersoni, Luca Iacoponi, Enrico Santus


Abstract
The shared task of the CogALex-VI workshop focuses on the monolingual and multilingual identification of semantic relations. We provided training and validation data for the following languages: English, German and Chinese. Given a word pair, systems had to be trained to identify which relation holds between them, with possible choices being synonymy, antonymy, hypernymy and no relation at all. Two test sets were released for evaluating the participating systems. One containing pairs for each of the training languages (systems were evaluated in a monolingual fashion) and the other proposing a surprise language to test the crosslingual transfer capabilities of the systems. Among the submitted systems, top performance was achieved by a transformer-based model in both the monolingual and in the multilingual setting, for all the tested languages, proving the potentials of this recently-introduced neural architecture. The shared task description and the results are available at https://sites.google.com/site/cogalexvisharedtask/.
Anthology ID:
2020.cogalex-1.5
Volume:
Proceedings of the Workshop on the Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon
Month:
December
Year:
2020
Address:
Online
Editors:
Michael Zock, Emmanuele Chersoni, Alessandro Lenci, Enrico Santus
Venue:
CogALex
SIG:
SIGLEX
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
46–53
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.cogalex-1.5
DOI:
Bibkey:
Cite (ACL):
Rong Xiang, Emmanuele Chersoni, Luca Iacoponi, and Enrico Santus. 2020. The CogALex Shared Task on Monolingual and Multilingual Identification of Semantic Relations. In Proceedings of the Workshop on the Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon, pages 46–53, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
The CogALex Shared Task on Monolingual and Multilingual Identification of Semantic Relations (Xiang et al., CogALex 2020)
Copy Citation:
PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.cogalex-1.5.pdf