Unsupervised Alignment of Distributional Word Embeddings · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2203.04863/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTUnsupervised Alignment of Distributional Word Embeddings — mentioned by canjobearhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40610899urn:hackerpapers:mention:2203.04863:40610899Fri, 07 Jun 2024 17:36:28 GMT<p>Languages do in fact have similar distributional structure, so that it is possible to learn how to translate words without supervision: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.04863 In principle languages are arbitrary, but in practice they’re describing the same world and the same concepts end up being useful.</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2203.04863/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CL