Kanade Nonomura
2026
Disentangling Meaning and Language Components in Diverse Multilingual Sentence Embeddings
Kanade Nonomura | Keita Fukushima | Risa Kondo | Tomoyuki Kajiwara
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)
Kanade Nonomura | Keita Fukushima | Risa Kondo | Tomoyuki Kajiwara
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)
We disentangle multilingual sentence embeddings into language-dependent and language-agnostic components, leveraging the latter to improve cross-lingual similarity estimation.Previous studies focused on encoder-based approaches that use only the input sentence; in contrast, this study examines the effectiveness of disentanglement methods across a broader range of sentence embeddings, including decoder-based approaches and those that utilize prompts.Experimental results demonstrate that embedding disentanglement is effective for a wide variety of sentence embeddings.