Is this model multilingual?
#1
by Giorgio1227 - opened
Hi there, I was wondering whether this model works well for multilingual semantic search.
Thank you.
Giorgio
We have the same concern +1
Depends on the language, I haven't had great success. Only potential solution which has increased recall rate for me is translating the source to english using Google's AJAX api.
It works well for German.
Doesn't seem to perform very well on Thai
Seem to work in French
Seems to work good in Italian
To the best of my knowledge, both the pretrained model and the finetuning dataset are English only. In short, the model is intended to be used for English texts, but that does not imply that it cannot generalize to other languages per se. I'll close this for now, but let me know if there's additional questions.
tomaarsen changed discussion status to closed