A Stronger Baseline for Multilingual Word Embeddings

11/01/2018

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by   Philipp Dufter, et al.

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Levy, Søgaard and Goldberg's (2017) S-ID (sentence ID) method applies word2vec on tuples containing a sentence ID and a word from the sentence. It has been shown to be a strong baseline for learning multilingual embeddings. Inspired by recent work on concept based embedding learning we propose SC-ID, an extension to S-ID: given a sentence aligned corpus, we use sampling to extract concepts that are then processed in the same manner as S-IDs. We perform experiments on the Parallel Bible Corpus across 1000+ languages and show that SC-ID yields up to 6 task. In addition, we provide evidence that SC-ID is easily and widely applicable by reporting competitive results across 8 tasks on a EuroParl based corpus.