Learning Language-Independent Representations of Verbs and Adjectives from Multimodal Retrieval

This paper presents a simple modification to previous work on learning cross-lingual, grounded word representations from image-word pairs that, unlike previous work, is robust across different parts of speech, e.g., able to find the translation of the adjective 'social' relying only on image features associated with its translation candidates. Our method does not rely on black-box image search engines or any direct cross-lingual supervision. We evaluate our approach on English-German and English-Japanese word alignment, as well as on existing English-German bilingual dictionary induction datasets.