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Learning Bilingual Word Representations by Marginalizing Alignments

Computation and Language 2014-05-06 v1

Abstract

We present a probabilistic model that simultaneously learns alignments and distributed representations for bilingual data. By marginalizing over word alignments the model captures a larger semantic context than prior work relying on hard alignments. The advantage of this approach is demonstrated in a cross-lingual classification task, where we outperform the prior published state of the art.

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@article{arxiv.1405.0947,
  title  = {Learning Bilingual Word Representations by Marginalizing Alignments},
  author = {Tomáš Kočiský and Karl Moritz Hermann and Phil Blunsom},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.0947},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Proceedings of ACL 2014 (Short Papers)

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