Simple and Effective Paraphrastic Similarity from Parallel Translations

John Wieting, Kevin Gimpel, Graham Neubig, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick


Abstract
We present a model and methodology for learning paraphrastic sentence embeddings directly from bitext, removing the time-consuming intermediate step of creating para-phrase corpora. Further, we show that the resulting model can be applied to cross lingual tasks where it both outperforms and is orders of magnitude faster than more complex state-of-the-art baselines.
Anthology ID:
P19-1453
Volume:
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Month:
July
Year:
2019
Address:
Florence, Italy
Editors:
Anna Korhonen, David Traum, Lluís Màrquez
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
4602–4608
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P19-1453
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-1453
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John Wieting, Kevin Gimpel, Graham Neubig, and Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick. 2019. Simple and Effective Paraphrastic Similarity from Parallel Translations. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 4602–4608, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Simple and Effective Paraphrastic Similarity from Parallel Translations (Wieting et al., ACL 2019)
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