# Simple and Effective Paraphrastic Similarity from Parallel Translations

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.13872 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.13872/

## Key facts

- Cited by 25 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 30 Sep 2019.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

We present a model and methodology for learning paraphrastic sentence embeddings directly from bitext, removing the time-consuming intermediate step of creating paraphrase corpora. Further, we show that the resulting model can be applied to cross-lingual tasks where it both outperforms and is orders of magnitude faster than more complex state-of-the-art baselines.