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most citedUniversal Sentence Encoder

1.3k citations · 2.4k across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CL2022★ 708 cited

LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications

Romal Thoppilan, Daniel De Freitas, Jamie Hall +57

We present LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications. LaMDA is a family of Transformer-based neural language models specialized for dialog, which have up to 137B parameters an…

cs.CL2019★ 67 cited

Multilingual Universal Sentence Encoder for Semantic Retrieval

Yinfei Yang, Daniel Cer, Amin Ahmad +9

We introduce two pre-trained retrieval focused multilingual sentence encoding models, respectively based on the Transformer and CNN model architectures. The models embed text from…

cs.CL2019★ 2 cited

Hierarchical Document Encoder for Parallel Corpus Mining

Mandy Guo, Yinfei Yang, Keith Stevens +5

We explore using multilingual document embeddings for nearest neighbor mining of parallel data. Three document-level representations are investigated: (i) document embeddings gener…

cs.CL2019★ 12 cited

Improving Multilingual Sentence Embedding using Bi-directional Dual Encoder with Additive Margin Softmax

Yinfei Yang, Gustavo Hernandez Abrego, Steve Yuan +6

In this paper, we present an approach to learn multilingual sentence embeddings using a bi-directional dual-encoder with additive margin softmax. The embeddings are able to achieve…

cs.CL2018★ 2 cited

Learning Cross-Lingual Sentence Representations via a Multi-task Dual-Encoder Model

Muthuraman Chidambaram, Yinfei Yang, Daniel Cer +4

A significant roadblock in multilingual neural language modeling is the lack of labeled non-English data. One potential method for overcoming this issue is learning cross-lingual t…

cs.CL2018★ 3 cited

Effective Parallel Corpus Mining using Bilingual Sentence Embeddings

Mandy Guo, Qinlan Shen, Yinfei Yang +8

This paper presents an effective approach for parallel corpus mining using bilingual sentence embeddings. Our embedding models are trained to produce similar representations exclus…

cs.CL2018★ 31 cited

Learning Semantic Textual Similarity from Conversations

Yinfei Yang, Steve Yuan, Daniel Cer +7

We present a novel approach to learn representations for sentence-level semantic similarity using conversational data. Our method trains an unsupervised model to predict conversati…

cs.CL2018★ 1.3k cited

Universal Sentence Encoder

Daniel Cer, Yinfei Yang, Sheng-yi Kong +10

We present models for encoding sentences into embedding vectors that specifically target transfer learning to other NLP tasks. The models are efficient and result in accurate perfo…

cs.CL2017★ 220 cited

Efficient Natural Language Response Suggestion for Smart Reply

Matthew Henderson, Rami Al-Rfou, Brian Strope +6

This paper presents a computationally efficient machine-learned method for natural language response suggestion. Feed-forward neural networks using n-gram embedding features encode…

cs.CL2017★ 19 cited

Generating High-Quality and Informative Conversation Responses with Sequence-to-Sequence Models

Louis Shao, Stephan Gouws, Denny Britz +3

Sequence-to-sequence models have been applied to the conversation response generation problem where the source sequence is the conversation history and the target sequence is the r…

cs.CL2016★ 54 cited

Conversational Contextual Cues: The Case of Personalization and History for Response Ranking

Rami Al-Rfou, Marc Pickett, Javier Snaider +3

We investigate the task of modeling open-domain, multi-turn, unstructured, multi-participant, conversational dialogue. We specifically study the effect of incorporating different e…