A Comparison of Unsupervised Methods for Ad hoc Cross-Lingual Document Retrieval

Elaine Zosa, Mark Granroth-Wilding, Lidia Pivovarova


Abstract
We address the problem of linking related documents across languages in a multilingual collection. We evaluate three diverse unsupervised methods to represent and compare documents: (1) multilingual topic model; (2) cross-lingual document embeddings; and (3) Wasserstein distance.We test the performance of these methods in retrieving news articles in Swedish that are known to be related to a given Finnish article.The results show that ensembles of the methods outperform the stand-alone methods, suggesting that they capture complementary characteristics of the documents
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2020.clssts-1.6
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Proceedings of the workshop on Cross-Language Search and Summarization of Text and Speech (CLSSTS2020)
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May
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2020
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Marseille, France
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CLSSTS
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European Language Resources Association
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32–37
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English
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Elaine Zosa, Mark Granroth-Wilding, and Lidia Pivovarova. 2020. A Comparison of Unsupervised Methods for Ad hoc Cross-Lingual Document Retrieval. In Proceedings of the workshop on Cross-Language Search and Summarization of Text and Speech (CLSSTS2020), pages 32–37, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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