@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2024-aadam,
    title = "{AA}da{M} at {S}em{E}val-2024 Task 1: Augmentation and Adaptation for Multilingual Semantic Textual Relatedness",
    author = "Zhang, Miaoran  and
      Wang, Mingyang  and
      Alabi, Jesujoba  and
      Klakow, Dietrich",
    editor = {Ojha, Atul Kr.  and
      Do{\u{g}}ru{\"o}z, A. Seza  and
      Tayyar Madabushi, Harish  and
      Da San Martino, Giovanni  and
      Rosenthal, Sara  and
      Ros{\'a}, Aiala},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024)",
    month = jun,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Mexico City, Mexico",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2024.semeval-1.114/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.semeval-1.114",
    pages = "800--810",
    abstract = "This paper presents our system developed for the SemEval-2024 Task 1: Semantic Textual Relatedness for African and Asian Languages. The shared task aims at measuring the semantic textual relatedness between pairs of sentences, with a focus on a range of under-represented languages. In this work, we propose using machine translation for data augmentation to address the low-resource challenge of limited training data. Moreover, we apply task-adaptive pre-training on unlabeled task data to bridge the gap between pre-training and task adaptation. For model training, we investigate both full fine-tuning and adapter-based tuning, and adopt the adapter framework for effective zero-shot cross-lingual transfer. We achieve competitive results in the shared task: our system performs the best among all ranked teams in both subtask A (supervised learning) and subtask C (cross-lingual transfer)."
}