Lazybob at SemEval-2023 Task 9: Quantifying Intimacy of Multilingual Tweets with Multi-Task Learning

AbstractThis study presents a systematic method for analyzing the level of intimacy in tweets across ten different languages, using multi-task learning for SemEval 2023 Task 9: Multilingual Tweet Intimacy Analysis. The system begins with the utilization of the official training data, and then we experiment with different fine-tuning tricks and effective strategies, such as data augmentation, multi-task learning, etc. Through additional experiments, the approach is shown to be effective for the task. To enhance the model’s robustness, different transformer-based language models and some widely-used plug-and-play priors are incorporated into our system. Our final submission achieved a Pearson R of 0.6160 for the intimacy score on the official test set, placing us at the top of the leader board among 45 teams.