SubmissionNumber#=%=#129 FinalPaperTitle#=%=#Fired_from_NLP at SemEval-2024 Task 1: Towards Developing Semantic Textual Relatedness Predictor: A Transformer-based Approach ShortPaperTitle#=%=# NumberOfPages#=%=#6 CopyrightSigned#=%=#Udoy Das JobTitle#==#Student Organization#==#Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Chattogram, Bangladesh Abstract#==#Predicting semantic textual relatedness (STR) is one of the most challenging tasks in the field of natural language processing. Semantic relatedness prediction has real-life practical applications while developing search engines and modern text generation systems. A shared task on semantic textual relatedness has been organized by SemEval 2024, where the organizer has proposed a dataset on semantic textual relatedness in the English language under Shared Task 1 (Track A3). In this work, we have developed models to predict semantic textual relatedness between pairs of English sentences by training and evaluating various transformer-based model architectures, deep learning, and machine learning methods using the shared dataset. Moreover, we have utilized existing semantic textual relatedness datasets such as the stsb multilingual benchmark dataset, the SemEval 2014 Task 1 dataset, and the SemEval 2015 Task 2 dataset. Our findings show that in the SemEval 2024 Shared Task 1 (Track A3), the fine-tuned-STS-BERT model performed the best, scoring 0.8103 on the test set and placing 25th out of all participants. Author{1}{Firstname}#=%=#Anik Mahmud Author{1}{Lastname}#=%=#Shanto Author{1}{Username}#=%=#anikmahmud Author{1}{Email}#=%=#u1904049@student.cuet.ac.bd Author{1}{Affiliation}#=%=#Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology Author{2}{Firstname}#=%=#Md. Sajid Alam Author{2}{Lastname}#=%=#Chowdhury Author{2}{Username}#=%=#sajid064 Author{2}{Email}#=%=#u1904064@student.cuet.ac.bd Author{2}{Affiliation}#=%=#Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology Author{3}{Firstname}#=%=#Mostak Mahmud Author{3}{Lastname}#=%=#Chowdhury Author{3}{Username}#=%=#ace055 Author{3}{Email}#=%=#mostakmahmud113@gmail.com Author{3}{Affiliation}#=%=#Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology Author{4}{Firstname}#=%=#Udoy Author{4}{Lastname}#=%=#Das Author{4}{Username}#=%=#udoy Author{4}{Email}#=%=#u1804109@student.cuet.ac.bd Author{4}{Affiliation}#=%=#Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology Author{5}{Firstname}#=%=#Hasan Author{5}{Lastname}#=%=#Murad Author{5}{Username}#=%=#hasanmurad Author{5}{Email}#=%=#hasanmurad@cuet.ac.bd Author{5}{Affiliation}#=%=#Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology ========== èéáğö