SemEval-2022 Task 8: Multilingual news article similarity

Xi Chen, Ali Zeynali, Chico Camargo, Fabian Flöck, Devin Gaffney, Przemyslaw Grabowicz, Scott Hale, David Jurgens, Mattia Samory


Abstract
Thousands of new news articles appear daily in outlets in different languages. Understanding which articles refer to the same story can not only improve applications like news aggregation but enable cross-linguistic analysis of media consumption and attention. However, assessing the similarity of stories in news articles is challenging due to the different dimensions in which a story might vary, e.g., two articles may have substantial textual overlap but describe similar events that happened years apart. To address this challenge, we introduce a new dataset of nearly 10,000 news article pairs spanning 18 language combinations annotated for seven dimensions of similarity as SemEval 2022 Task 8. Here, we present an overview of the task, the best performing submissions, and the frontiers and challenges for measuring multilingual news article similarity. While the participants of this SemEval task contributed very strong models, achieving up to 0.818 correlation with gold standard labels across languages, human annotators are capable of reaching higher correlations, suggesting space for further progress.
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2022.semeval-1.155
Volume:
Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022)
Month:
July
Year:
2022
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Seattle, United States
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Guy Emerson, Natalie Schluter, Gabriel Stanovsky, Ritesh Kumar, Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Siddharth Singh, Shyam Ratan
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1094–1106
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.semeval-1.155
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.semeval-1.155
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Xi Chen, Ali Zeynali, Chico Camargo, Fabian Flöck, Devin Gaffney, Przemyslaw Grabowicz, Scott Hale, David Jurgens, and Mattia Samory. 2022. SemEval-2022 Task 8: Multilingual news article similarity. In Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022), pages 1094–1106, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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SemEval-2022 Task 8: Multilingual news article similarity (Chen et al., SemEval 2022)
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