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We describe SemEval-2021 task 6 on Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Texts and Images: the data, the annotation guidelines, the evaluation setup, the results, and the participating systems. The task focused on memes and had three…

The phenomenon of mixing the vocabulary and syntax of multiple languages within the same utterance is called Code-Mixing. This is more evident in multilingual societies. In this paper, we have developed a system for SemEval 2020: Task 9 on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Sunil Gundapu , Radhika Mamidi

We present FregeLogic, a hybrid neuro-symbolic system for SemEval-2026 Task 11 (Subtask 1), which addresses syllogistic validity prediction while reducing content effects on predictions. Our approach combines an ensemble of five LLM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Adewale Akinfaderin , Nafi Diallo

In this paper, we present the main findings and compare the results of SemEval-2020 Task 10, Emphasis Selection for Written Text in Visual Media. The goal of this shared task is to design automatic methods for emphasis selection, i.e.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Amirreza Shirani , Franck Dernoncourt , Nedim Lipka , Paul Asente , Jose Echevarria , Thamar Solorio

The occurrence of unknown words in texts significantly hinders reading comprehension. To improve accessibility for specific target populations, computational modelling has been applied to identify complex words in texts and substitute them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Kai North , Marcos Zampieri , Matthew Shardlow

This paper presents a technical report of our submission to the 4th task of SemEval-2021, titled: Reading Comprehension of Abstract Meaning. In this task, we want to predict the correct answer based on a question given a context. Usually,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Hossein Basafa , Sajad Movahedi , Ali Ebrahimi , Azadeh Shakery , Heshaam Faili

This paper describes the winning contribution to SemEval-2020 Task 1: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Change Detection (Subtask 2) handed in by team UG Student Intern. We present an ensemble model that makes predictions based on context-free…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Martin Pömsl , Roman Lyapin

This paper studies contextual biasing with Large Language Models (LLMs), where during second-pass rescoring additional contextual information is provided to a LLM to boost Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) performance. We propose to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Chuanneng Sun , Zeeshan Ahmed , Yingyi Ma , Zhe Liu , Lucas Kabela , Yutong Pang , Ozlem Kalinli

This paper presents the PALI team's winning system for SemEval-2021 Task 2: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Word-in-Context Disambiguation. We fine-tune XLM-RoBERTa model to solve the task of word in context disambiguation, i.e., to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Shuyi Xie , Jian Ma , Haiqin Yang , Lianxin Jiang , Yang Mo , Jianping Shen

This paper describes an investigation of the robustness of large language models (LLMs) for retrieval augmented generation (RAG)-based summarization tasks. While LLMs provide summarization capabilities, their performance in complex,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Shengjie Liu , Jing Wu , Jingyuan Bao , Wenyi Wang , Naira Hovakimyan , Christopher G Healey

With strong expressive capabilities in Large Language Models(LLMs), generative models effectively capture sentiment structures and deep semantics, however, challenges remain in fine-grained sentiment classification across multi-lingual and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Jie Wang , Yichen Wang , Zhilin Zhang , Jianhao Zeng , Kaidi Wang , Zhiyang Chen

A critical bottleneck in supervised machine learning is the need for large amounts of labeled data which is expensive and time consuming to obtain. However, it has been shown that a small amount of labeled data, while insufficient to…

We present Self-Consistent Structured Generation (SCSG) for Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis in SemEval-2026 Task 3 (Track A). SCSG enhances prediction reliability by executing a LoRA-adapted large language model multiple times…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Nils Constantin Hellwig , Jakob Fehle , Udo Kruschwitz , Christian Wolff

This paper presents our segmentation system developed for the MLP 2017 shared tasks on cross-lingual word segmentation and morpheme segmentation. We model both word and morpheme segmentation as character-level sequence labelling tasks. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Yan Shao

This paper describes our submission to SemEval-2022 Task 6 on sarcasm detection and its five subtasks for English and Arabic. Sarcasm conveys a meaning which contradicts the literal meaning, and it is mainly found on social networks. It has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Shubham Kumar Nigam , Mosab Shaheen

Ambiguous words are often found in modern digital communications. Lexical ambiguity challenges traditional Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) methods, due to limited data. Consequently, the efficiency of translation, information retrieval, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 T. G. D. K. Sumanathilaka , Nicholas Micallef , Julian Hough

This paper presents the system for SemEval 2021 Task 8 (MeasEval). MeasEval is a novel span extraction, classification, and relation extraction task focused on finding quantities, attributes of these quantities, and additional information,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Akash Gangwar , Sabhay Jain , Shubham Sourav , Ashutosh Modi

This paper describes the system designed by ERNIE Team which achieved the first place in SemEval-2020 Task 10: Emphasis Selection For Written Text in Visual Media. Given a sentence, we are asked to find out the most important words as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Zhengjie Huang , Shikun Feng , Weiyue Su , Xuyi Chen , Shuohuan Wang , Jiaxiang Liu , Xuan Ouyang , Yu Sun

In this paper, we explore the ways to improve POS-tagging using various types of auxiliary losses and different word representations. As a baseline, we utilized a BiLSTM tagger, which is able to achieve state-of-the-art results on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Daniil Anastasyev , Ilya Gusev , Eugene Indenbom

This paper summarizes our studies on propaganda detection techniques for news articles in the SemEval-2020 task 11. This task is divided into the SI and TC subtasks. We implemented the GloVe word representation, the BERT pretraining model,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Jiaxu Dao , Jin Wang , Xuejie Zhang