IAPUCP at SemEval-2021 Task 1: Stacking Fine-Tuned Transformers is Almost All You Need for Lexical Complexity Prediction

Kervy Rivas Rojas, Fernando Alva-Manchego


Abstract
This paper describes our submission to SemEval-2021 Task 1: predicting the complexity score for single words. Our model leverages standard morphosyntactic and frequency-based features that proved helpful for Complex Word Identification (a related task), and combines them with predictions made by Transformer-based pre-trained models that were fine-tuned on the Shared Task data. Our submission system stacks all previous models with a LightGBM at the top. One novelty of our approach is the use of multi-task learning for fine-tuning a pre-trained model for both Lexical Complexity Prediction and Word Sense Disambiguation. Our analysis shows that all independent models achieve a good performance in the task, but that stacking them obtains a Pearson correlation of 0.7704, merely 0.018 points behind the winning submission.
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2021.semeval-1.14
Volume:
Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021)
Month:
August
Year:
2021
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Online
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Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Natalie Schluter, Guy Emerson, Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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144–149
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.14
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.semeval-1.14
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Kervy Rivas Rojas and Fernando Alva-Manchego. 2021. IAPUCP at SemEval-2021 Task 1: Stacking Fine-Tuned Transformers is Almost All You Need for Lexical Complexity Prediction. In Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021), pages 144–149, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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IAPUCP at SemEval-2021 Task 1: Stacking Fine-Tuned Transformers is Almost All You Need for Lexical Complexity Prediction (Rivas Rojas & Alva-Manchego, SemEval 2021)
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