@article{Hirota_Suhara_Golshan_Tan_2020, title={Emu: Enhancing Multilingual Sentence Embeddings with Semantic Specialization}, volume={34}, url={https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/6301}, DOI={10.1609/aaai.v34i05.6301}, abstractNote={<p>We present E<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">mu</span>, a system that semantically enhances multilingual sentence embeddings. Our framework fine-tunes pre-trained multilingual sentence embeddings using two main components: a semantic classifier and a language discriminator. The semantic classifier improves the semantic similarity of related sentences, whereas the language discriminator enhances the multilinguality of the embeddings via multilingual adversarial training. Our experimental results based on several language pairs show that our specialized embeddings outperform the state-of-the-art multilingual sentence embedding model on the task of cross-lingual intent classification using only monolingual labeled data.</p>}, number={05}, journal={Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, author={Hirota, Wataru and Suhara, Yoshihiko and Golshan, Behzad and Tan, Wang-Chiew}, year={2020}, month={Apr.}, pages={7935-7943} }