Lucia-Georgiana Coca


2020

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UAICS at SemEval-2020 Task 4: Using a Bidirectional Transformer for Task a
Ciprian-Gabriel Cusmuliuc | Lucia-Georgiana Coca | Adrian Iftene
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation

Commonsense Validation and Explanation has been a difficult task for machines since the dawn of computing. Although very trivial to humans it poses a high complexity for machines due to the necessity of inference over a pre-existing knowledge base. In order to try and solve this problem the SemEval 2020 Task 4 - ”Commonsense Validation and Explanation (ComVE)” aims to evaluate systems capable of multiple stages of ComVE. The challenge includes 3 tasks (A, B and C), each with it’s own requirements. Our team participated only in task A which required selecting the statement that made the least sense. We choose to use a bidirectional transformer in order to solve the challenge, this paper presents the details of our method, runs and result.