NBF at SemEval-2025 Task 5: Light-Burst Attention Enhanced System for Multilingual Subject Recommendation

Baharul Islam, Nasim Ahmad, Ferdous Barbhuiya, Kuntal Dey


Abstract
This paper presents a system for automated subject tagging in a bilingual academic setting. Our approach leverages a novel burst attention mechanism to enhance the alignment between article and subject embeddings, derived from a large cross-lingual subject corpus. By employing a margin-based loss with negative sampling, our resource-efficient model achieves competitive performance in both quantitative and qualitative evaluations. Experimental results demonstrate average recall rates of 32.24% on the full test set, along with robust performance on specialized subsets, making our system well-suited for large-scale subject recommendation tasks.
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2025.semeval-1.127
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Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025)
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July
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2025
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Vienna, Austria
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Sara Rosenthal, Aiala Rosá, Debanjan Ghosh, Marcos Zampieri
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SemEval | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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953–958
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Baharul Islam, Nasim Ahmad, Ferdous Barbhuiya, and Kuntal Dey. 2025. NBF at SemEval-2025 Task 5: Light-Burst Attention Enhanced System for Multilingual Subject Recommendation. In Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025), pages 953–958, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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NBF at SemEval-2025 Task 5: Light-Burst Attention Enhanced System for Multilingual Subject Recommendation (Islam et al., SemEval 2025)
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