<span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">**</span><span class="n">kwargs</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">-&gt;</span> <span class="nb">float</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="sd">&quot;&quot;&quot;</span>
<span class="sd">        Conduct semantic textual similariry task with S-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 encode