RGCL at SemEval-2020 Task 6: Neural Approaches to DefinitionExtraction
Tharindu Ranasinghe, Alistair Plum, Constantin Orasan, Ruslan Mitkov
Abstract
This paper presents the RGCL team submission to SemEval 2020 Task 6: DeftEval, subtasks 1 and 2. The system classifies definitions at the sentence and token levels. It utilises state-of-the-art neural network architectures, which have some task-specific adaptations, including an automatically extended training set. Overall, the approach achieves acceptable evaluation scores, while maintaining flexibility in architecture selection.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.semeval-1.94
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Barcelona (online)
- Editors:
- Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu, Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova
- Venue:
- SemEval
- SIG:
- SIGLEX
- Publisher:
- International Committee for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 717–723
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.94
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2020.semeval-1.94
- Cite (ACL):
- Tharindu Ranasinghe, Alistair Plum, Constantin Orasan, and Ruslan Mitkov. 2020. RGCL at SemEval-2020 Task 6: Neural Approaches to DefinitionExtraction. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 717–723, Barcelona (online). International Committee for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- RGCL at SemEval-2020 Task 6: Neural Approaches to DefinitionExtraction (Ranasinghe et al., SemEval 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/naacl24-info/2020.semeval-1.94.pdf
- Data
- DEFT Corpus