Re: [Wikitech-l] [Tech Talks] How to compare text across multiple languages, 25, Sept, 2019 at 6PM UTC

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