Multilingual Extractive Question Answering With Span Prediction

via “multi-lingual-query-passage-alignment”

sentence-similarity model by undefined. 22,52,145 downloads.

Unique: Trained on diverse multilingual QA datasets (Yahoo Answers, Natural Questions, TriviaQA, ELI5) with contrastive learning to align queries and passages across languages in a single shared embedding space. Uses MPNet's efficient cross-attention to handle variable-length multilingual input without separate language-specific encoders.

vs others: Enables true cross-lingual retrieval (query in English, retrieve passages in Spanish) without separate models or translation, whereas most sentence-BERT variants require language-specific fine-tuning or external translation layers.