sd">&quot;&quot;&quot;</span>
<span class="sd">        Conduct semantic textual similarity task with BERT</span>

<span class="sd">        Args:</span>
<span class="sd">            sent_a (str): first sentence to be encoded</span>
<span class="sd">            sent_b (str): second sentence to be encoded</span>

<span class="sd">        Returns:</span>
<span class="sd">            float: similarity score</span>

<span class="sd">        &quot;&quot;&quot;</span>
        <span class="n">sim</span> <span class=