UPB at SemEval-2020 Task 6: Pretrained Language Models for Definition Extraction

Andrei-Marius Avram, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel, Costin Chiru


Abstract
This work presents our contribution in the context of the 6th task of SemEval-2020: Extracting Definitions from Free Text in Textbooks (DeftEval). This competition consists of three subtasks with different levels of granularity: (1) classification of sentences as definitional or non-definitional, (2) labeling of definitional sentences, and (3) relation classification. We use various pretrained language models (i.e., BERT, XLNet, RoBERTa, SciBERT, and ALBERT) to solve each of the three subtasks of the competition. Specifically, for each language model variant, we experiment by both freezing its weights and fine-tuning them. We also explore a multi-task architecture that was trained to jointly predict the outputs for the second and the third subtasks. Our best performing model evaluated on the DeftEval dataset obtains the 32nd place for the first subtask and the 37th place for the second subtask. The code is available for further research at: https://github.com/avramandrei/DeftEval
Anthology ID:
2020.semeval-1.97
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:
737–745
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.97
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.semeval-1.97
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Cite (ACL):
Andrei-Marius Avram, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel, and Costin Chiru. 2020. UPB at SemEval-2020 Task 6: Pretrained Language Models for Definition Extraction. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 737–745, Barcelona (online). International Committee for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
UPB at SemEval-2020 Task 6: Pretrained Language Models for Definition Extraction (Avram et al., SemEval 2020)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.97.pdf
Code
 avramandrei/DeftEval +  additional community code
Data
DEFT CorpusGLUE