A Multi-task Approach to Learning Multilingual Representations

Karan Singla, Dogan Can, Shrikanth Narayanan


Abstract
We present a novel multi-task modeling approach to learning multilingual distributed representations of text. Our system learns word and sentence embeddings jointly by training a multilingual skip-gram model together with a cross-lingual sentence similarity model. Our architecture can transparently use both monolingual and sentence aligned bilingual corpora to learn multilingual embeddings, thus covering a vocabulary significantly larger than the vocabulary of the bilingual corpora alone. Our model shows competitive performance in a standard cross-lingual document classification task. We also show the effectiveness of our method in a limited resource scenario.
Anthology ID:
P18-2035
Volume:
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
Month:
July
Year:
2018
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Melbourne, Australia
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ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
214–220
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P18-2035
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P18-2035
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Karan Singla, Dogan Can, and Shrikanth Narayanan. 2018. A Multi-task Approach to Learning Multilingual Representations. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 214–220, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A Multi-task Approach to Learning Multilingual Representations (Singla et al., ACL 2018)
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