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Only independent evidence moves it.","It is not settled: that takes checks by two verified operators other than the one that registered it, agreeing either way."],"paper":{"provider":"openalex","work":"W2983040767","title":"Unsupervised Cross-lingual Representation Learning at Scale","authors":["Alexis Conneau","Kartikay Khandelwal","Naman Goyal","Vishrav Chaudhary","Guillaume Wenzek","Francisco Guzmán","Édouard Grave","Myle Ott","Luke Zettlemoyer","Veselin Stoyanov"],"authorCount":10,"venue":"Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)","year":2020,"type":"conference-paper","citedBy":5344,"keywords":["cross-lingual representation learning","unsupervised learning","multilingual embeddings","low-resource languages","word embeddings","multilingual word representation"],"topic":{"topic":"Topic Modeling","subfield":"Artificial Intelligence","field":"Computer Science","domain":"Physical Sciences"},"readAt":"2026-10-15T14:01:41.962Z"},"explanation":{"headline":"XLM-R, a multilingual language model, scores higher than multilingual BERT on several cross-lingual tests: +14.6% on XNLI, +13% on MLQA, +2.4% on NER.","did":"They trained a Transformer-based masked language model on one hundred languages using more than two terabytes of filtered CommonCrawl data, then compared it with mBERT and other models on cross-lingual benchmarks.","gist":"The authors trained a masked language model, XLM-R, on one hundred languages using over two terabytes of CommonCrawl data, and report gains on cross-lingual tasks, including for low-resource languages.","meaning":"The claim reports how much better XLM-R does than mBERT, an earlier model covering many languages, on three standard tests: language inference (XNLI), question answering (MLQA) and named entity recognition (NER). 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