📚 Similarity Oracle 🔮

In the Great Kingdom Library, archivists face an increasingly difficult task:
thousands of manuscripts, scrolls, and ancient chronicles must be organized, compared, and indexed.

To assist them, the ancestors created a legendary mechanism: Similarity Oracle. This device can determine, with remarkable accuracy, how similar two text fragments are, returning a score between 0 and 5.

However, the mechanism has deteriorated over time, and the Great Council of Archivists decided a modern version, built using machine learning, is needed.

For this, you are provided with two files:

• train.csv - scrolls manually annotated by scribes
• test.csv - new pairs to be analyzed by your solution

Your task is to reconstruct the Oracle through a series of analyses and a final predictive model.

📊 Dataset

Each row in train.csv and test.csv represents a pair of sentences:

• sampleID – unique identifier of the pair
• sentence1 – first text
• sentence2 – second text
• score – only in train.csv, a real value between 0 and 5 indicating similarity

The ultimate goal is to predict score for each row in test.csv.

📝 Tasks

For the first subtasks, you need to analyze the data provided in train.csv and test.csv
and extract different relevant information about the test sentences.

Subtask 1 (10 points)

Compute the length of each sentence (sentence1 and sentence2) for each row in the test set
and label the pair based on the average length:

• Short if average < 50
• Medium if 50 ≤ average < 100
• Long if average ≥ 100

Subtask 2 (15 points)

For each row in test, compute the number of words in each sentence (sentence1 and sentence2) and calculate the total using:

total_words = num_words(sentence1) + num_words(sentence2)

Subtask 3 (15 points)

Determine the absolute difference between the length of sentence1 and sentence2
for each row in test.

In other words, for each row compute:

|num_chars(sentence1) - num_chars(sentence2)|

Subtask 4 (60 points)

Build a machine learning model capable of predicting the numeric score
for each row in test.csv.

Final evaluation will be based on MAE (Mean Absolute Error), calculated as:

🧮 Evaluation

Metric for Subtask 4:

• MAE (Mean Absolute Error) (the lower the value, the higher the points).
• If the model achieves MAE ≤ 0.65, the solution gets 60 points.
• If the model achieves MAE ≥ 2.0, the solution gets 0 points.
• For intermediate MAE values, points are awarded proportionally.

For subtasks 1-3, answers are evaluated exactly.

📌 Notes

• Preprocessing such as tokenization, embeddings, pretrained models is allowed.

📄 Submission Format

The submission.csv file must contain 4 rows for each test row,
corresponding to the 4 subtasks.

Structure:

subtaskID datapointID answer

Column meanings:

• subtaskID – a number from 1 to 4

• datapointID – sampleID from test

• answer – the result:

  • Subtask 1: Short / Medium / Long
  • Subtask 2: integer
  • Subtask 3: integer
  • Subtask 4: real value (predicted score)

Example for sampleID = 1714:

subtaskID datapointID answer
1 1714 Medium
2 1714 15
3 1714 3
4 1714 3.74

Good luck! The Great Council of Archivists counts on you to revive the Similarity Oracle! 🧙‍♂️