Hi Everyone, Just a reminder that this will be taking place tomorrow, 25, Sept, 2019 at 6PM UTC! I'll send out another reminder about a half hour before the talk starts. Hope to see you there! Kindly, Sarah R. On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 1:31 PM Sarah R &lt;srodlund(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > It's time for Wikimedia Tech Talks 2019 Episode 8! This talk will take > place 25, Sept, 2019 at 6PM UTC. > > *Topic:* How to compare text across multiple languages > > *Speaker:* Diego Saez-Trumper, Research Scientist > > *Summary:* > > This talk will explain how cross-lingual word embeddings works, and how > they can be used to measure the semantic distance between words and > documents across different languages. It will cover some use cases in our > section and template alignment work. > > The link to the Youtube Livestream can be found here: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaDc_4-TNos > > During the live talk, you are invited to join the discussion on IRC at > #wikimedia-office > > You can watch past Tech Talks here: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tech_talks > > If you are interested in giving your own tech talk, you can learn more > here: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar/How_to_schedule_an_event#Te… > > Many kindnesses, > > Sarah R. Rodlund > Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy> > srodlund(a)wikimedia.org > >