IITK at SemEval-2024 Task 1: Contrastive Learning and Autoencoders for Semantic Textual Relatedness in Multilingual Texts

Udvas Basak, Rajarshi Dutta, Shivam Pandey, Ashutosh Modi


Abstract
This paper describes our system developed for the SemEval-2024 Task 1: Semantic Textual Relatedness. The challenge is focused on automatically detecting the degree of relatedness between pairs of sentences for 14 languages including both high and low-resource Asian and African languages. Our team participated in two subtasks consisting of Track A: supervised and Track B: unsupervised. This paper focuses on a BERT-based contrastive learning and similarity metric based approach primarily for the supervised track while exploring autoencoders for the unsupervised track. It also aims on the creation of a bigram relatedness corpus using negative sampling strategy, thereby producing refined word embeddings.
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2024.semeval-1.207
Volume:
Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024)
Month:
June
Year:
2024
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Mexico City, Mexico
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Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Giovanni Da San Martino, Sara Rosenthal, Aiala Rosá
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1443–1448
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.semeval-1.207
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.semeval-1.207
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Udvas Basak, Rajarshi Dutta, Shivam Pandey, and Ashutosh Modi. 2024. IITK at SemEval-2024 Task 1: Contrastive Learning and Autoencoders for Semantic Textual Relatedness in Multilingual Texts. In Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024), pages 1443–1448, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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IITK at SemEval-2024 Task 1: Contrastive Learning and Autoencoders for Semantic Textual Relatedness in Multilingual Texts (Basak et al., SemEval 2024)
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