SubmissionNumber#=%=#208 FinalPaperTitle#=%=#MasonTigers at SemEval-2024 Task 1: An Ensemble Approach for Semantic Textual Relatedness ShortPaperTitle#=%=# NumberOfPages#=%=#11 CopyrightSigned#=%=#DHIMAN GOSWAMI JobTitle#==# Organization#==# Abstract#==#This paper presents the MasonTigers' entry to the SemEval-2024 Task 1 - Semantic Textual Relatedness. The task encompasses supervised (Track A), unsupervised (Track B), and cross-lingual (Track C) approaches to semantic textual relatedness across 14 languages. MasonTigers stands out as one of the two teams who participated in all languages across the three tracks. Our approaches achieved rankings ranging from 11th to 21st in Track A, from 1st to 8th in Track B, and from 5th to 12th in Track C. Adhering to the task-specific constraints, our best performing approaches utilize an ensemble of statistical machine learning approaches combined with language-specific BERT based models and sentence transformers. Author{1}{Firstname}#=%=#Dhiman Author{1}{Lastname}#=%=#Goswami Author{1}{Username}#=%=#dhimangoswami Author{1}{Email}#=%=#dgoswam@gmu.edu Author{1}{Affiliation}#=%=#George Mason University Author{2}{Firstname}#=%=#Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Author{2}{Lastname}#=%=#Puspo Author{2}{Username}#=%=#sadiyapuspo Author{2}{Email}#=%=#spuspo@gmu.edu Author{2}{Affiliation}#=%=#George Mason University Author{3}{Firstname}#=%=#Nishat Author{3}{Lastname}#=%=#Raihan Author{3}{Username}#=%=#md.nishat Author{3}{Email}#=%=#mraihan2@gmu.edu Author{3}{Affiliation}#=%=#George Mason University Author{4}{Firstname}#=%=#Al Nahian Author{4}{Lastname}#=%=#Bin Emran Author{4}{Username}#=%=#alnahian Author{4}{Email}#=%=#abinemra@gmu.edu Author{4}{Affiliation}#=%=#George Mason University Author{5}{Firstname}#=%=#Amrita Author{5}{Lastname}#=%=#Ganguly Author{5}{Username}#=%=#amritaganguly Author{5}{Email}#=%=#agangul@gmu.edu Author{5}{Affiliation}#=%=#George Mason University Author{6}{Firstname}#=%=#Marcos Author{6}{Lastname}#=%=#Zampieri Author{6}{Username}#=%=#marcoszampieri Author{6}{Email}#=%=#mzampier@gmu.edu Author{6}{Affiliation}#=%=#George Mason University ========== èéáğö