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What Do Language Representations Really Represent?

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2019
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Bjerva, J., Östling, R., Veiga, M. H., Tiedemann, J., & Augenstein, I. (2019). What Do Language Representations Really Represent? Computational Linguistics, 45, 381–389. https://doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00351

Abstract

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Abstract

A neural language model trained on a text corpus can be used to induce distributed representations of words, such that similar words end up with similar representations. If the corpus is multilingual, the same model can be used to learn distributed representations of languages, such that similar languages end up with similar representations. We show that this holds even when the multilingual corpus has been translated into English, by picking up the faint signal left by the source languages. However, just as it is a thorny problem to

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  • Bjerva, Johannes
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  • Östling, Robert
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  • Veiga, Maria Han
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  • Tiedemann, Jörg
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  • Augenstein, Isabelle
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45

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2

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381

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389

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Journal Article

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Keywords

Linguistics and Language, Artificial Intelligence, Language and Linguistics, Computer Science Applications

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English

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2019-06-01

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2020-02-18

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0891-2017

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Bjerva, J., Östling, R., Veiga, M. H., Tiedemann, J., & Augenstein, I. (2019). What Do Language Representations Really Represent? Computational Linguistics, 45, 381–389. https://doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00351

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