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Nearest-neighbor cross-lingual translation-pair retrieval

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Tests whether a multilingual model's representation space aligns different languages' translations near each other by retrieving, for a word/sentence in one language, its nearest neighbor (by cosine or Euclidean distance) among representations of candidate translations in another language, scoring retrieval accuracy against known translation pairs.

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structure: Linear Subspace · models: mBERT (BERT-base, Multilingual Cased) · paper: How Multilingual is Multilingual BERT?