@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2021-ta,
    title = "{TA}-{MAMC} at {S}em{E}val-2021 Task 4: Task-adaptive Pretraining and Multi-head Attention for Abstract Meaning Reading Comprehension",
    author = "Zhang, Jing  and
      Zhuang, Yimeng  and
      Su, Yinpei",
    editor = "Palmer, Alexis  and
      Schneider, Nathan  and
      Schluter, Natalie  and
      Emerson, Guy  and
      Herbelot, Aurelie  and
      Zhu, Xiaodan",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021)",
    month = aug,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/add-emnlp-2024-awards/2021.semeval-1.5/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.semeval-1.5",
    pages = "51--58",
    abstract = "This paper describes our system used in the SemEval-2021 Task4 Reading Comprehension of Abstract Meaning, achieving 1st for subtask 1 and 2nd for subtask 2 on the leaderboard. We propose an ensemble of ELECTRA-based models with task-adaptive pretraining and a multi-head attention multiple-choice classifier on top of the pre-trained model. The main contributions of our system are 1) revealing the performance discrepancy of different transformer-based pretraining models on the downstream task, 2) presentation of an efficient method to generate large task-adaptive corpora for pretraining. We also investigated several pretraining strategies and contrastive learning objectives. Our system achieves a test accuracy of 95.11 and 94.89 on subtask 1 and subtask 2 respectively."
}