CUHK at SemEval-2020 Task 4: CommonSense Explanation, Reasoning and Prediction with Multi-task Learning

Hongru Wang, Xiangru Tang, Sunny Lai, Kwong Sak Leung, Jia Zhu, Gabriel Pui Cheong Fung, Kam-Fai Wong


Abstract
This paper describes our system submitted to task 4 of SemEval 2020: Commonsense Validation and Explanation (ComVE) which consists of three sub-tasks. The task is to directly validate the given sentence whether or not to make sense and require the model to explain it. Based on BERT architecture with the multi-task setting, we propose an effective and interpretable “Explain, Reason and Predict” (ERP) system to solve the three sub-tasks about commonsense: (a) Validation, (b) Reasoning, and (c) Explanation. Inspired by cognitive studies of common sense, our system first generates a reason or understanding of the sentences and then choose which one statement makes sense, which is achieved by multi-task learning. During the post-evaluation, our system has reached 92.9% accuracy in subtask A (rank 11), 89.7% accuracy in subtask B (rank 9), and BLEU score of 12.9 in subtask C (rank 8).
Anthology ID:
2020.semeval-1.47
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Month:
December
Year:
2020
Address:
Barcelona (online)
Editors:
Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu, Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova
Venue:
SemEval
SIG:
SIGLEX
Publisher:
International Committee for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
391–400
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.47
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.semeval-1.47
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Cite (ACL):
Hongru Wang, Xiangru Tang, Sunny Lai, Kwong Sak Leung, Jia Zhu, Gabriel Pui Cheong Fung, and Kam-Fai Wong. 2020. CUHK at SemEval-2020 Task 4: CommonSense Explanation, Reasoning and Prediction with Multi-task Learning. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 391–400, Barcelona (online). International Committee for Computational Linguistics.
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CUHK at SemEval-2020 Task 4: CommonSense Explanation, Reasoning and Prediction with Multi-task Learning (Wang et al., SemEval 2020)
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.47.pdf
Data
ConceptNet