LASER

• Massively Multilingual Sentence Embeddings for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer and Beyond
• joint multilingual sentence representations
• LASER
• Language-Agnostic SEntence Representations
• 93 languages, belonging to more than 30 different families and written in 28 different scripts
• universal language agnostic sentence embeddings
• train a single encoder to handle multiple languages, so that semantically similar sentences in different languages are close in the Embedding space
• single BiLSTM encoder with a shared BPE vocabulary for all languages
• coupled with an auxiliary decoder and trained on publicly available parallel corpora
• learn a classifier on top of the resulting embeddings using English annotated data only, and transfer it to any of the 93 languages without any modification
• XNLI
• MLDoc
• BUCC
• test set of aligned sentences in 112 languages

Laser

• Acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. A device that produces a coherent monochromatic beam of light which is extremely narrow and focused but still within the visible light spectrum. This is commonly used as a non-Contact Sensor for robots. Robotic applications include: distance finding, identifying accurate locations, surface mapping, bar code scanning, cutting, welding etc.