Cross Lingual Information Retrieval Without Explicit Translation

via “multilingual information retrieval with language-agnostic ranking”

sentence-similarity model by undefined. 3,58,00,432 downloads.

Unique: Operates in a unified multilingual embedding space learned from 50+ languages simultaneously, enabling direct similarity comparison between queries and documents in different languages without intermediate translation or language-specific indices, unlike traditional IR systems that require separate indices per language

vs others: Eliminates need for language detection, translation pipelines, and separate indices per language, reducing infrastructure complexity and latency by 5-10x compared to translation-based retrieval while maintaining competitive ranking quality