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IITK's Multilingual Semantic Textual Relatedness System for SemEval-2024 Task 1

Q: How can the contrastive learning approach be further improved to better capture the nuances of semantic relatedness in low-resource languages with complex lexical structures

To enhance the contrastive learning approach for better capturing semantic relatedness in low-resource languages with intricate lexical structures, several strategies can be implemented. Firstly, incorporating language-specific pre-processing steps to handle unique linguistic features and nuances can improve the model's understanding of these languages. This may involve customized tokenization, stemming, or lemmatization techniques tailored to each language. Additionally, utilizing language-specific embeddings or fine-tuning pre-trained models on data from these languages can enhance the model's ability to capture semantic nuances accurately. Furthermore, exploring data augmentation techniques specific to low-resource languages, such as back-translation or synthetic data generation, can help in exposing the model to a more diverse set of language patterns and structures. This exposure can aid in improving the model's generalization capabilities and its performance on languages with limited training data. Moreover, incorporating multi-task learning approaches where the model is trained on related tasks simultaneously can help in leveraging additional linguistic information and context to enhance semantic relatedness understanding. By jointly training the model on tasks like part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition, or syntactic parsing, the model can learn more robust representations that capture semantic nuances effectively in low-resource languages.

Q: What other unsupervised techniques, beyond autoencoders, could be explored to enhance the performance on the unsupervised track

Beyond autoencoders, other unsupervised techniques that could be explored to enhance performance on the unsupervised track include: Self-Supervised Learning: Techniques like masked language modeling (as used in BERT) or predicting missing words in a sentence can help the model learn rich representations without labeled data. By training the model to predict masked tokens or reconstruct corrupted sentences, it can capture semantic relationships and contextual information effectively. Graph-based Representations: Utilizing graph neural networks to represent sentences as nodes and their relationships as edges can capture complex semantic dependencies. By modeling sentences in a graph structure and learning representations based on graph connectivity, the model can capture intricate semantic relatedness more effectively. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs): Implementing GANs for text generation tasks can help in learning latent representations that capture semantic relatedness. By training a generator to produce sentences that are indistinguishable from real sentences and a discriminator to differentiate between real and generated sentences, the model can learn robust representations for semantic relatedness. Clustering Algorithms: Leveraging clustering algorithms to group similar sentences together based on semantic similarity can aid in learning representations that capture semantic relatedness. By clustering sentences in an unsupervised manner and using cluster assignments as features, the model can learn to differentiate between semantically related and unrelated sentences effectively.

Q: How can the system be extended to incorporate cross-lingual information and leverage the similarities and differences between languages to improve the overall performance

To extend the system for cross-lingual information and leverage similarities and differences between languages, a few key strategies can be implemented: Multilingual Embeddings: Utilize multilingual embeddings like mBERT or XLM-R to encode text from multiple languages into a shared embedding space. By training the model on a diverse set of languages simultaneously, it can learn to capture cross-lingual similarities and differences, enhancing its ability to understand semantic relatedness across languages. Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning: Implement transfer learning techniques where the model is pre-trained on a resource-rich language and fine-tuned on low-resource languages. By transferring knowledge from high-resource languages to low-resource ones, the model can leverage the shared linguistic structures to improve performance on languages with limited data. Language Alignment Techniques: Explore techniques like adversarial training or language adversarial training to align the embeddings of different languages in a shared space. By aligning the embeddings of diverse languages, the model can effectively leverage cross-lingual information to enhance its understanding of semantic relatedness across languages. Zero-shot Learning: Implement zero-shot learning approaches where the model is tested on languages it was not explicitly trained on. By leveraging the shared representations learned during training, the model can generalize to unseen languages and infer semantic relatedness effectively, even in languages not present in the training data.

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The paper presents a system developed by IITK for the SemEval-2024 Task 1: Semantic Textual Relatedness, which focuses on automatically detecting the degree of relatedness between pairs of sentences in 14 languages, including both high and low-resource Asian and African languages. The system utilizes a BERT-based contrastive learning approach and similarity metric-based approach for the supervised track, as well as transformer autoencoders for the unsupervised track.

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The paper describes IITK's system for the SemEval-2024 Task 1: Semantic Textual Relatedness. The task involves automatically detecting the degree of relatedness between pairs of sentences in 14 different languages, including both high and low-resource Asian and African languages.

For the supervised track (Track A), the system uses a BERT-based contrastive learning approach and a custom similarity metric-based approach. The contrastive learning approach, SimCSE, creates positive and negative sentence samples using Natural Language Inference (NLI) and aligns related sentences in the embedding space. The custom similarity metric combines various lexical similarity measures, such as cosine similarity, Mahalanobis distance, Euclidean distance, and Jaccard and Dice coefficients, calculated on the sentence embeddings.

For the unsupervised track (Track B), the system explores the use of transformer autoencoders, specifically the Transformer Denoising through Auto Encoders (TSDAE) approach. TSDAE corrupts the input sentences and trains the model to reconstruct the original sentences, aiming to improve the quality of the sentence embeddings.

The paper also discusses the creation of a bigram relatedness corpus using a negative sampling strategy, which is intended to produce refined word embeddings for the unsupervised task.

The system's performance is evaluated on the provided datasets for the 14 languages. The results show that the contrastive learning approach did not perform well for some languages, potentially due to the complexity of the lexical structures and the inability of the negative samples to be distinguishable enough from the positive samples. The unsupervised approach, on the other hand, performed reasonably well for most languages, with the correlation scores being higher than the provided baselines.

The paper concludes by acknowledging the need to study the properties of each low-resource language in more depth to improve the overall efficiency and performance of the system.

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The dataset consists of a total of 14 languages, namely Afrikaans, Algerian Arabic, Amharic, English, Hausa, Indonesian, Hindi, Kinyarwanda, Marathi, Modern Standard Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, Punjabi, Spanish, and Telugu. Each language has pairs of sentences with scores representing the degree of semantic textual relatedness between 0 and 1.

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"The fundamental difference between semantic similarity and relatedness is that semantic similarity only considers paraphrase or entailment relationships. In contrast, relatedness accounts for all commonalities between two sentences, e.g., topical, temporal, thematic, contextual, syntactic, etc."
"The major challenge lies in the efficient development of a metric to facilitate the calculation of the relatedness score between the sentence pairs and harnessing the structure of multiple languages to create an efficient model."

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IITK at SemEval-2024 Task 1

by Udvas Basak,... om arxiv.org 04-09-2024

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.04513.pdf

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How can the contrastive learning approach be further improved to better capture the nuances of semantic relatedness in low-resource languages with complex lexical structures

To enhance the contrastive learning approach for better capturing semantic relatedness in low-resource languages with intricate lexical structures, several strategies can be implemented. Firstly, incorporating language-specific pre-processing steps to handle unique linguistic features and nuances can improve the model's understanding of these languages. This may involve customized tokenization, stemming, or lemmatization techniques tailored to each language. Additionally, utilizing language-specific embeddings or fine-tuning pre-trained models on data from these languages can enhance the model's ability to capture semantic nuances accurately.
Furthermore, exploring data augmentation techniques specific to low-resource languages, such as back-translation or synthetic data generation, can help in exposing the model to a more diverse set of language patterns and structures. This exposure can aid in improving the model's generalization capabilities and its performance on languages with limited training data.
Moreover, incorporating multi-task learning approaches where the model is trained on related tasks simultaneously can help in leveraging additional linguistic information and context to enhance semantic relatedness understanding. By jointly training the model on tasks like part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition, or syntactic parsing, the model can learn more robust representations that capture semantic nuances effectively in low-resource languages.

What other unsupervised techniques, beyond autoencoders, could be explored to enhance the performance on the unsupervised track

Beyond autoencoders, other unsupervised techniques that could be explored to enhance performance on the unsupervised track include:

Self-Supervised Learning: Techniques like masked language modeling (as used in BERT) or predicting missing words in a sentence can help the model learn rich representations without labeled data. By training the model to predict masked tokens or reconstruct corrupted sentences, it can capture semantic relationships and contextual information effectively.

Graph-based Representations: Utilizing graph neural networks to represent sentences as nodes and their relationships as edges can capture complex semantic dependencies. By modeling sentences in a graph structure and learning representations based on graph connectivity, the model can capture intricate semantic relatedness more effectively.

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs): Implementing GANs for text generation tasks can help in learning latent representations that capture semantic relatedness. By training a generator to produce sentences that are indistinguishable from real sentences and a discriminator to differentiate between real and generated sentences, the model can learn robust representations for semantic relatedness.

Clustering Algorithms: Leveraging clustering algorithms to group similar sentences together based on semantic similarity can aid in learning representations that capture semantic relatedness. By clustering sentences in an unsupervised manner and using cluster assignments as features, the model can learn to differentiate between semantically related and unrelated sentences effectively.

How can the system be extended to incorporate cross-lingual information and leverage the similarities and differences between languages to improve the overall performance

To extend the system for cross-lingual information and leverage similarities and differences between languages, a few key strategies can be implemented:

Multilingual Embeddings: Utilize multilingual embeddings like mBERT or XLM-R to encode text from multiple languages into a shared embedding space. By training the model on a diverse set of languages simultaneously, it can learn to capture cross-lingual similarities and differences, enhancing its ability to understand semantic relatedness across languages.

Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning: Implement transfer learning techniques where the model is pre-trained on a resource-rich language and fine-tuned on low-resource languages. By transferring knowledge from high-resource languages to low-resource ones, the model can leverage the shared linguistic structures to improve performance on languages with limited data.

Language Alignment Techniques: Explore techniques like adversarial training or language adversarial training to align the embeddings of different languages in a shared space. By aligning the embeddings of diverse languages, the model can effectively leverage cross-lingual information to enhance its understanding of semantic relatedness across languages.

Zero-shot Learning: Implement zero-shot learning approaches where the model is tested on languages it was not explicitly trained on. By leveraging the shared representations learned during training, the model can generalize to unseen languages and infer semantic relatedness effectively, even in languages not present in the training data.