StFX-NLP at SemEval-2024 Task 9: BRAINTEASER: Three Unsupervised Riddle-Solvers

Ethan Heavey, James Hughes, Milton King


Abstract
In this paper, we explore three unsupervised learning models that we applied to Task 9: BRAINTEASER of SemEval 2024. Two of these models incorporate word sense disambiguation and part-of-speech tagging, specifically leveraging SensEmBERT and the Stanford log-linear part-of-speech tagger. Our third model relies on a more traditional language modelling approach. The best performing model, a bag-of-words model leveraging word sense disambiguation and part-of-speech tagging, secured the 10th spot out of 11 places on both the sentence puzzle and word puzzle subtasks.
Anthology ID:
2024.semeval-1.5
Volume:
Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024)
Month:
June
Year:
2024
Address:
Mexico City, Mexico
Editors:
Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Giovanni Da San Martino, Sara Rosenthal, Aiala Rosá
Venue:
SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
28–33
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2024.semeval-1.5
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.semeval-1.5
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Ethan Heavey, James Hughes, and Milton King. 2024. StFX-NLP at SemEval-2024 Task 9: BRAINTEASER: Three Unsupervised Riddle-Solvers. In Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024), pages 28–33, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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StFX-NLP at SemEval-2024 Task 9: BRAINTEASER: Three Unsupervised Riddle-Solvers (Heavey et al., SemEval 2024)
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