PALI at SemEval-2021 Task 2: Fine-Tune XLM-RoBERTa for Word in Context Disambiguation

Shuyi Xie, Jian Ma, Haiqin Yang, Lianxin Jiang, Yang Mo, Jianping Shen


Abstract
This paper presents the PALI team’s winning system for SemEval-2021 Task 2: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Word-in-Context Disambiguation. We fine-tune XLM-RoBERTa model to solve the task of word in context disambiguation, i.e., to determine whether the target word in the two contexts contains the same meaning or not. In implementation, we first specifically design an input tag to emphasize the target word in the contexts. Second, we construct a new vector on the fine-tuned embeddings from XLM-RoBERTa and feed it to a fully-connected network to output the probability of whether the target word in the context has the same meaning or not. The new vector is attained by concatenating the embedding of the [CLS] token and the embeddings of the target word in the contexts. In training, we explore several tricks, such as the Ranger optimizer, data augmentation, and adversarial training, to improve the model prediction. Consequently, we attain the first place in all four cross-lingual tasks.
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2021.semeval-1.93
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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713–718
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.93
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.semeval-1.93
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Shuyi Xie, Jian Ma, Haiqin Yang, Lianxin Jiang, Yang Mo, and Jianping Shen. 2021. PALI at SemEval-2021 Task 2: Fine-Tune XLM-RoBERTa for Word in Context Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021), pages 713–718, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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PALI at SemEval-2021 Task 2: Fine-Tune XLM-RoBERTa for Word in Context Disambiguation (Xie et al., SemEval 2021)
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