@inproceedings{glavas-etal-2017-cross,
    title = "Cross-Lingual Classification of Topics in Political Texts",
    author = "Glava{\v{s}}, Goran  and
      Nanni, Federico  and
      Ponzetto, Simone Paolo",
    editor = {Hovy, Dirk  and
      Volkova, Svitlana  and
      Bamman, David  and
      Jurgens, David  and
      O{'}Connor, Brendan  and
      Tsur, Oren  and
      Do{\u{g}}ru{\"o}z, A. Seza},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Workshop on {NLP} and Computational Social Science",
    month = aug,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Vancouver, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/W17-2906/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-2906",
    pages = "42--46",
    abstract = "In this paper, we propose an approach for cross-lingual topical coding of sentences from electoral manifestos of political parties in different languages. To this end, we exploit continuous semantic text representations and induce a joint multilingual semantic vector spaces to enable supervised learning using manually-coded sentences across different languages. Our experimental results show that classifiers trained on multilingual data yield performance boosts over monolingual topic classification."
}