- Hanan Aldarmaki, Mona T. Diab. 2016. GWU NLP at SemEval-2016 Shared Task 1: Matrix Factorization for Crosslingual STS. Abstract: We present a matrix factorization model for learning cross-lingual representations for sentences. Using sentence-aligned corpora, the proposed model learns distributed representations by factoring the given data into language-dependent factors and one shared factor. As a result, input sentences from both languages can be mapped into fixed-length vectors and then compared directly using the cosine similarity measure, which achieves 0.8 Pearson correlation on Spanish-English semantic textual similarity.
