Cross-Lingual Phrase Retrieval

Heqi Zheng, Xiao Zhang, Zewen Chi, Heyan Huang, Yan Tan, Tian Lan, Wei Wei, Xian-Ling Mao


Abstract
Cross-lingual retrieval aims to retrieve relevant text across languages. Current methods typically achieve cross-lingual retrieval by learning language-agnostic text representations in word or sentence level. However, how to learn phrase representations for cross-lingual phrase retrieval is still an open problem. In this paper, we propose , a cross-lingual phrase retriever that extracts phrase representations from unlabeled example sentences. Moreover, we create a large-scale cross-lingual phrase retrieval dataset, which contains 65K bilingual phrase pairs and 4.2M example sentences in 8 English-centric language pairs. Experimental results show that outperforms state-of-the-art baselines which utilize word-level or sentence-level representations. also shows impressive zero-shot transferability that enables the model to perform retrieval in an unseen language pair during training. Our dataset, code, and trained models are publicly available at github.com/cwszz/XPR/.
Anthology ID:
2022.acl-long.288
Volume:
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Month:
May
Year:
2022
Address:
Dublin, Ireland
Editors:
Smaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov, Aline Villavicencio
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ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
4193–4204
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.288
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.288
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Cite (ACL):
Heqi Zheng, Xiao Zhang, Zewen Chi, Heyan Huang, Yan Tan, Tian Lan, Wei Wei, and Xian-Ling Mao. 2022. Cross-Lingual Phrase Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 4193–4204, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Cross-Lingual Phrase Retrieval (Zheng et al., ACL 2022)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.288.pdf
Code
 cwszz/xpr