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title = "Is a Prestigious Job the same as a Prestigious Country? A Case Study on Multilingual Sentence Embeddings and {E}uropean Countries",
author = "Libovick{\'y}, Jind{\v{r}}ich",
editor = "Bouamor, Houda and
Pino, Juan and
Bali, Kalika",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023",
month = dec,
year = "2023",
address = "Singapore",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.71",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.71",
pages = "1000--1010",
abstract = "We study how multilingual sentence representations capture European countries and occupations and how this differs across European languages. We prompt the models with templated sentences that we machine-translate into 12 European languages and analyze the most prominent dimensions in the embeddings. Our analysis reveals that the most prominent feature in the embedding is the political distinction between Eastern and Western Europe and the country{'}s economic strength in terms of GDP. When prompted specifically for job prestige, the embedding space clearly distinguishes high and low-prestige jobs. The occupational dimension is uncorrelated with the most dominant country dimensions in three out of four studied models. The exception is a small distilled model that exhibits a connection between occupational prestige and country of origin, which is a potential source of nationality-based discrimination. Our findings are consistent across languages.",
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%A Libovický, Jindřich
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%Y Pino, Juan
%Y Bali, Kalika
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%D 2023
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Markdown (Informal)
[Is a Prestigious Job the same as a Prestigious Country? A Case Study on Multilingual Sentence Embeddings and European Countries](https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.71) (Libovický, Findings 2023)
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