Universal Sentence Encoder XLING English and German

Description

The Universal Sentence Encoder Cross-lingual (XLING) module is an extension of the Universal Sentence Encoder that includes training on multiple tasks across languages. The multi-task training setup is based on the paper “Learning Cross-lingual Sentence Representations via a Multi-task Dual Encoder”.

This specific module is trained on English and German (en-de) tasks, and optimized for greater-than-word length text, such as sentences, phrases or short paragraphs.

It is trained on a variety of data sources and tasks, with the goal of learning text representations that are useful out-of-the-box for a number of applications. The input to the module is variable length English or German text and the output is a 512 dimensional vector.

We note that one does not need to specify the language that the input is in, as the model was trained such that English and German text with similar meanings will have similar (high dot product score) embeddings. We also note that this model can be used for monolingual English (and potentially monolingual German) tasks with comparable or even better performance than the purely English Universal Sentence Encoder.

Note: This model only works on Linux and macOS operating systems and is not compatible with Windows due to the incompatibility of the SentencePiece library.

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How to use

...
embeddings = UniversalSentenceEncoder.pretrained("tfhub_use_xling_en_de", "xx") \
      .setInputCols("document") \
      .setOutputCol("sentence_embeddings")
nlp_pipeline = Pipeline(stages=[document_assembler, sentence_detector, embeddings])
pipeline_model = nlp_pipeline.fit(spark.createDataFrame([[""]]).toDF("text"))
result = pipeline_model.transform(spark.createDataFrame([['I love NLP', 'Ich benutze gerne SparkNLP']], ["text"]))

...
val embeddings = UniversalSentenceEncoder.pretrained("tfhub_use_xling_en_de", "xx")
      .setInputCols("document")
      .setOutputCol("sentence_embeddings")
val pipeline = new Pipeline().setStages(Array(document_assembler, sentence_detector, embeddings))
val data = Seq("I love NLP", "Ich benutze gerne SparkNLP").toDF("text")
val result = pipeline.fit(data).transform(data)

import nlu

text = ["I love NLP", "Ich benutze gerne SparkNLP"]
embeddings_df = nlu.load('xx.use.xling_en_de').predict(text, output_level='sentence')
embeddings_df

Results

It gives a 512-dimensional vector of the sentences.

        xx_use_xling_en_de_embeddings	                     sentence

0	[-0.011391869746148586, -0.0591440312564373, -...    I love NLP
1	[-0.06441862881183624, -0.05351972579956055, 0...    Ich benutze gerne SparkNLP

Model Information

Data Source

This embeddings model is imported from https://tfhub.dev/google/universal-sentence-encoder-xling/en-de/1