README.md

LASER: application to multilingual similarity search

This codes shows how to embed an N-way parallel corpus (we use the publicly available newstest2012 from WMT 2012), and how to calculate the similarity search error rate for each language pair.

For each sentence in the source language, we calculate the closest sentence in the joint embedding space in the target language. If this sentence has the same index in the file, it is considered as correct, and as an error else wise. Therefore, the N-way parallel corpus should not contain duplicates.

Installation

• simply run the script bash ./wmt.sh to downloads the data, calculate the sentence embeddings and the similarity search error rate for each language pair.

Results

You should get the following similarity search errors:

	cs	de	en	es	fr	avg
cs	0.00%	0.70%	0.90%	0.67%	0.77%	0.76%
de	0.83%	0.00%	1.17%	0.90%	1.03%	0.98%
en	0.93%	1.27%	0.00%	0.83%	1.07%	1.02%
es	0.53%	0.77%	0.97%	0.00%	0.57%	0.71%
fr	0.50%	0.90%	1.13%	0.60%	0.00%	0.78%
avg	0.70%	0.91%	1.04%	0.75%	0.86%	1.06%