 Cross English & German RoBERTa for Sentence Embeddings This model is intended to [compute sentence (text) embeddings](https://www.sbert.net/examples/applications/computing-embeddings/README.html) for English and German text. These embeddings can then be compared with [cosine-similarity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosine_similarity) to find sentences with a similar semantic meaning. For example this can be useful for [semantic textual similarity](https://www.sbert.net/docs/usage/semantic_textual_similarity.html), [semantic search](https://www.sbert.net/docs/usage/semantic_search.html), or [paraphrase mining](https://www.sbert.net/docs/usage/paraphrase_mining.html). To do this you have to use the [Sentence Transformers Python framework](https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers).  The speciality of this model is that it also works cross-lingually. Regardless of the language, the sentences are translated into very similar vectors according to their semantics. This means that you can, for example, enter a search in German and find results according to the semantics in German and also in English. Using a xlm model and _multilingual finetuning with language-crossing_ we reach performance that even exceeds the best current dedicated English large model (see Evaluation section below).  > Sentence-BERT (SBERT) is a  modification  of  the  pretrained BERT network that use siamese and triplet network structures to derive semantically meaningful sentence embeddings that can be compared using cosine-similarity. This reduces the effort for finding the most similar pair from 65hours with BERT / RoBERTa to about 5 seconds with SBERT, while maintaining the accuracy from BERT.  Source: [Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks](https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10084)  This model is fine-tuned from [Philip May](https://may.la/) and open-sourced by [T-Systems-onsite](https://www.t-systems-onsite.de/). Special thanks to [Nils Reimers](https://www.nils-reimers.de/) for your awesome open-source work, the Sentence Transformers, the models and your help on GitHub.  