readme: ---
  language:
  - fi
  - en
  tags:
  - sentence-similarity
  - sentence-transformers
  
  widget:
  - source-sentence: "mikä on teidän paras telkkari"
  
  ---
  
  An XML-RoBERTa based cross-lingual Sentence-BERT model distilled to cover semantic textual similarity in Finnish in addition to English. At the time of creation there were no models performing better in Finnish STS that I was aware of.
  
  
  # Usage instructions
  
  This model is essentially an extended SentenceTransformer so instructions described at [sbert.net](https://www.sbert.net) apply.
  
  # The other things
  
  The training setup, data, optimizer parameters, limitations and evaluation is described in Ch 6 [here](http://hdl.handle.net/10138/332588) and [repository](https://github.com/mkmoisio/sts-en-to-fi-distillation).
  
  # Credit
  
  This heavily builds on the work done by [Nils Reimers](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=57GA3A8AAAAJ&hl=de) et al. 
  
  
  # Contact
  Still got questions?
  
  mmoisio@kiisseli.com