XRJL-HKUST at SemEval-2021 Task 4: WordNet-Enhanced Dual Multi-head Co-Attention for Reading Comprehension of Abstract Meaning

Yuxin Jiang, Ziyi Shou, Qijun Wang, Hao Wu, Fangzhen Lin

Abstract
This paper presents our submitted system to SemEval 2021 Task 4: Reading Comprehension of Abstract Meaning. Our system uses a large pre-trained language model as the encoder and an additional dual multi-head co-attention layer to strengthen the relationship between passages and question-answer pairs, following the current state-of-the-art model DUMA. The main difference is that we stack the passage-question and question-passage attention modules instead of calculating parallelly to simulate re-considering process. We also add a layer normalization module to improve the performance of our model. Furthermore, to incorporate our known knowledge about abstract concepts, we retrieve the definitions of candidate answers from WordNet and feed them to the model as extra inputs. Our system, called WordNet-enhanced DUal Multi-head Co-Attention (WN-DUMA), achieves 86.67% and 89.99% accuracy on the official blind test set of subtask 1 and subtask 2 respectively.
Anthology ID:
2021.semeval-1.105
Volume:
Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021)
Month:
August
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
Editors:
Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Natalie Schluter, Guy Emerson, Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu
Venue:
SemEval
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SIGLEX
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
793–798
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.105
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.semeval-1.105
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Cite (ACL):
Yuxin Jiang, Ziyi Shou, Qijun Wang, Hao Wu, and Fangzhen Lin. 2021. XRJL-HKUST at SemEval-2021 Task 4: WordNet-Enhanced Dual Multi-head Co-Attention for Reading Comprehension of Abstract Meaning. In Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021), pages 793–798, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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XRJL-HKUST at SemEval-2021 Task 4: WordNet-Enhanced Dual Multi-head Co-Attention for Reading Comprehension of Abstract Meaning (Jiang et al., SemEval 2021)
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 zzshou/RCAM
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ReCAM
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