WESSA at SemEval-2020 Task 9: Code-Mixed Sentiment Analysis using Transformers

09/21/2020

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by   Ahmed Sultan, et al.

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In this paper, we describe our system submitted for SemEval 2020 Task 9, Sentiment Analysis for Code-Mixed Social Media Text alongside other experiments. Our best performing system is a Transfer Learning-based model that fine-tunes "XLM-RoBERTa", a transformer-based multilingual masked language model, on monolingual English and Spanish data and Spanish-English code-mixed data. Our system outperforms the official task baseline by achieving a 70.1 average F1-Score on the official leaderboard using the test set. For later submissions, our system manages to achieve a 75.9 set using CodaLab username "ahmed0sultan".