Sattiy at SemEval-2021 Task 9: An Ensemble Solution for Statement Verification and Evidence Finding with Tables

Xiaoyi Ruan, Meizhi Jin, Jian Ma, Haiqin Yang, Lianxin Jiang, Yang Mo, Mengyuan Zhou


Abstract
Question answering from semi-structured tables can be seen as a semantic parsing task and is significant and practical for pushing the boundary of natural language understanding. Existing research mainly focuses on understanding contents from unstructured evidence, e.g., news, natural language sentences and documents. The task of verification from structured evidence, such as tables, charts, and databases, is still less-explored. This paper describes sattiy team’s system in SemEval-2021 task 9: Statement Verification and Evidence Finding with Tables (SEM-TAB-FACT)(CITATION). This competition aims to verify statements and to find evidence from tables for scientific articles and to promote proper interpretation of the surrounding article. In this paper we exploited ensemble models of pre-trained language models over tables, TaPas and TaBERT, for Task A and adjust the result based on some rules extracted for Task B. Finally, in the leadboard, we attain the F1 scores of 0.8496 and 0.7732 in Task A for the 2-way and 3-way evaluation, respectively, and the F1 score of 0.4856 in Task B.
Anthology ID:
2021.semeval-1.179
Volume:
Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021)
Month:
August
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
Editors:
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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Pages:
1255–1261
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.179
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.semeval-1.179
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Cite (ACL):
Xiaoyi Ruan, Meizhi Jin, Jian Ma, Haiqin Yang, Lianxin Jiang, Yang Mo, and Mengyuan Zhou. 2021. Sattiy at SemEval-2021 Task 9: An Ensemble Solution for Statement Verification and Evidence Finding with Tables. In Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021), pages 1255–1261, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Sattiy at SemEval-2021 Task 9: An Ensemble Solution for Statement Verification and Evidence Finding with Tables (Ruan et al., SemEval 2021)
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