Bhavani Iyer

Learning Cross-Lingual IR from an English Retriever

2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

We present DR.DECR (Dense Retrieval with Distillation-Enhanced Cross-Lingual Representation), a new cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) system trained using multi-stage knowledge distillation (KD). The teacher of DR.DECR relies on a highly effective but computationally expensive two-stage …