Multilingual Universal Sentence Encoder for Semantic Retrieval

Yinfei Yang, Daniel Cer, Amin Ahmad, Mandy Guo, Jax Law, Noah Constant, Gustavo Hernandez Abrego, Steve Yuan, Chris Tar, Yun-hsuan Sung, Brian Strope, Ray Kurzweil


Abstract
We present easy-to-use retrieval focused multilingual sentence embedding models, made available on TensorFlow Hub. The models embed text from 16 languages into a shared semantic space using a multi-task trained dual-encoder that learns tied cross-lingual representations via translation bridge tasks (Chidambaram et al., 2018). The models achieve a new state-of-the-art in performance on monolingual and cross-lingual semantic retrieval (SR). Competitive performance is obtained on the related tasks of translation pair bitext retrieval (BR) and retrieval question answering (ReQA). On transfer learning tasks, our multilingual embeddings approach, and in some cases exceed, the performance of English only sentence embeddings.
Anthology ID:
2020.acl-demos.12
Volume:
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
Month:
July
Year:
2020
Address:
Online
Editors:
Asli Celikyilmaz, Tsung-Hsien Wen
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ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
87–94
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-demos.12
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.acl-demos.12
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Cite (ACL):
Yinfei Yang, Daniel Cer, Amin Ahmad, Mandy Guo, Jax Law, Noah Constant, Gustavo Hernandez Abrego, Steve Yuan, Chris Tar, Yun-hsuan Sung, Brian Strope, and Ray Kurzweil. 2020. Multilingual Universal Sentence Encoder for Semantic Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 87–94, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Multilingual Universal Sentence Encoder for Semantic Retrieval (Yang et al., ACL 2020)
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-demos.12.pdf
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Data
MultiNLISNLISQuADSentEval