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Under the hood: Multilingual embeddings

Jan 24, 2018Ves Stoyanov
Under the hood: Multilingual embeddings
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Introduced multilingual embeddings for NLP tasks, enabling text classification across languages without explicit translation. This involves training language-specific embeddings using fastText, projecting them into a common space using an orthogonal matrix derived from parallel data, and integrating them into the DeepText framework. This approach significantly improves cross-lingual accuracy and reduces latency compared to translation-based methods.

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