SubmissionNumber#=%=#279 FinalPaperTitle#=%=#NLP_Team1@SSN at SemEval-2024 Task 1: Impact of language models in Sentence-BERT for Semantic Textual Relatedness in Low-resource Languages ShortPaperTitle#=%=# NumberOfPages#=%=#6 CopyrightSigned#=%=#Senthil Kumar B JobTitle#==# Organization#==#Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering Abstract#==#Semantic Textual Relatedness (STR) will provide insight into the limitations of existing models and support ongoing work on semantic representations. Track A in Shared Task-1, provides pairs of sentences with semantic relatedness scores for 9 languages out of which 7 are low-resources. These languages are from four different language families. We developed models for 8 languages (except for Amharic) in Track A, using Sentence Transformers (SBERT) architecture, and fine-tuned them with multilingual and monolingual pre-trained language models (PLM). Our models for English (eng), Algerian Arabic (arq), and Kinyarwanda (kin) languages were ranked 12, 5, and 8 respectively. Our submissions are ranked 5th among 40 submissions in Track A with an average Spearman correlation score of 0.74. However, we observed that the usage of monolingual PLMs did not guarantee better than multilingual PLMs in Marathi (mar), and Telugu (tel) languages in our case. Author{1}{Firstname}#=%=#Senthil Kumar Author{1}{Lastname}#=%=#B Author{1}{Username}#=%=#bsenthilkumar Author{1}{Email}#=%=#senthil@ssn.edu.in Author{1}{Affiliation}#=%=#Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering Author{2}{Firstname}#=%=#Aravindan Author{2}{Lastname}#=%=#Chandrabose Author{2}{Username}#=%=#aravindanc Author{2}{Email}#=%=#aravindanc@ssn.edu.in Author{2}{Affiliation}#=%=#Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering Author{3}{Firstname}#=%=#Gokulakrishnan Author{3}{Lastname}#=%=#B Author{3}{Email}#=%=#gokulakrishnan2010598@ssn.edu.in Author{3}{Affiliation}#=%=#Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering Author{4}{Firstname}#=%=#Karthikraja Author{4}{Lastname}#=%=#TP Author{4}{Email}#=%=#karthikraja2010588@ssn.edu.in Author{4}{Affiliation}#=%=#Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering ========== èéáğö