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EACL 2017
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Multilingual training of crosslingual word embeddings

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Abstract

Crosslingual word embeddings represent lexical items from different languages using the same vector space, enabling crosslingual transfer. Most prior work constructs embeddings for a pair of languages, with English on one side. We investigate methods for building high quality crosslingual word embeddings for many languages in a unified vector space. In this way, we can exploit and combine information from many languages. We report competitive performance on bilingual lexicon induction, monolingual similarity and crosslingual document classification tasks.

Date

01 Jul 2017

Publication

EACL 2017

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