GRASP at CoMeDi Shared Task: Multi-Strategy Modeling of Annotator Behavior in Multi-Lingual Semantic Judgments

David Alfter, Mattias Appelgren


Abstract
This paper presents the GRASP team’s systems for the CoMeDi 2025 shared task on disagreement prediction in semantic annotation. The task comprises two subtasks: predicting median similarity scores and mean disagreement scores for word usage across multiple languages including Chinese, English, German, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. For subtask 1, we implement three approaches: Prochain, a probabilistic chain model predicting sequential judgments; FARM, an ensemble of five fine-tuned XLM-RoBERTa models; and THAT, a task-specific model using XL-Lexeme with adaptive thresholds. For subtask 2, we develop three systems: LAMP, combining language-agnostic and monolingual models; BUMBLE, using optimal language combinations; and DRAMA, leveraging disagreement patterns from FARM’s outputs. Our results show strong performance across both subtasks, ranking second overall among participating teams. The probabilistic Prochain model demonstrates surprisingly robust performance when given accurate initial judgments, while our task-specific approaches show varying effectiveness across languages.
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2025.comedi-1.7
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Proceedings of Context and Meaning: Navigating Disagreements in NLP Annotation
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January
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2025
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Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Michael Roth, Dominik Schlechtweg
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CoMeDi | WS
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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78–89
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David Alfter and Mattias Appelgren. 2025. GRASP at CoMeDi Shared Task: Multi-Strategy Modeling of Annotator Behavior in Multi-Lingual Semantic Judgments. In Proceedings of Context and Meaning: Navigating Disagreements in NLP Annotation, pages 78–89, Abu Dhabi, UAE. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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