Hitachi at SemEval-2020 Task 3: Exploring the Representation Spaces of Transformers for Human Sense Word Similarity

Terufumi Morishita, Gaku Morio, Hiroaki Ozaki, Toshinori Miyoshi


Abstract
In this paper, we present our system for SemEval-2020 task 3, Predicting the (Graded) Effect of Context in Word Similarity. Due to the unsupervised nature of the task, we concentrated on inquiring about the similarity measures induced by different layers of different pre-trained Transformer-based language models, which can be good approximations of the human sense of word similarity. Interestingly, our experiments reveal a language-independent characteristic: the middle to upper layers of Transformer-based language models can induce good approximate similarity measures. Finally, our system was ranked 1st on the Slovenian part of Subtask1 and 2nd on the Croatian part of both Subtask1 and Subtask2.
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2020.semeval-1.36
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
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December
Year:
2020
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Barcelona (online)
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Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu, Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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International Committee for Computational Linguistics
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286–291
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.36
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.semeval-1.36
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Terufumi Morishita, Gaku Morio, Hiroaki Ozaki, and Toshinori Miyoshi. 2020. Hitachi at SemEval-2020 Task 3: Exploring the Representation Spaces of Transformers for Human Sense Word Similarity. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 286–291, Barcelona (online). International Committee for Computational Linguistics.
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Hitachi at SemEval-2020 Task 3: Exploring the Representation Spaces of Transformers for Human Sense Word Similarity (Morishita et al., SemEval 2020)
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