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title = "{X}iao{M} at {S}em{E}val-2026 Task 7: A Qwen-based System for Accurate Retrieval of Everyday Knowledge Across Diverse Languages and Cultures",
author = "Yao, Xiao and
Yang, Liang",
editor = "Kochmar, Ekaterina and
Ghosh, Debanjan and
North, Kai and
Komachi, Mamoru",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 20th {I}nternational {W}orkshop on {S}emantic {E}valuation (2026)",
month = jul,
year = "2026",
address = "San Diego, California, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.213/",
pages = "1659--1663",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-414-9",
abstract = "This paper describes our system designed for SemEval-2026 Task 7: Everyday Knowledge Across Diverse Languages and Cultures. We describe a practical inference system for a two-track benchmark consisting of short-answer questions (SAQ) and multiple-choice questions (MCQ). Our submission is implemented in a single script and targets competition constraints directly: strict TSV schemas, short answer limits, and reliability under batch inference. The system uses Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct with memory-aware initialization, deterministic decoding (no sampling, zero temperature), and post-processing rules that guarantee valid outputs. We further add retry-on-failure and file-write fault tolerance to reduce runtime interruptions."
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%T XiaoM at SemEval-2026 Task 7: A Qwen-based System for Accurate Retrieval of Everyday Knowledge Across Diverse Languages and Cultures
%A Yao, Xiao
%A Yang, Liang
%Y Kochmar, Ekaterina
%Y Ghosh, Debanjan
%Y North, Kai
%Y Komachi, Mamoru
%S Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
%D 2026
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
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%F yao-yang-2026-xiaom
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Markdown (Informal)
[XiaoM at SemEval-2026 Task 7: A Qwen-based System for Accurate Retrieval of Everyday Knowledge Across Diverse Languages and Cultures](https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.213/) (Yao & Yang, SemEval 2026)
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