AlexUNLP-NB at SemEval-2025 Task 1: A Pipeline for Idiom Disambiguation and Visual Representation

Mohamed Badran, Youssof Nawar, Nagwa El - Makky


Abstract
This paper describes our system developed for SemEval-2025 Task 1, subtask A. This sharedsubtask focuses on multilingual idiom recognition and the ranking of images based on howwell they represent the sense in which a nominal compound is used within a given contextual sentence. This study explores the use of a pipeline, where task-specific models are sequentially employed to address each problem step by step. The process involves three key steps: first, identifying whether idioms are in their literal or figurative form; second, transforming them if necessary; and finally, usingthe final form to rank the input images.
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2025.semeval-1.76
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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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546–550
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Mohamed Badran, Youssof Nawar, and Nagwa El - Makky. 2025. AlexUNLP-NB at SemEval-2025 Task 1: A Pipeline for Idiom Disambiguation and Visual Representation. In Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025), pages 546–550, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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