| Challenge: | a new method of analysing sentence embeddings shows that linguistic information is retained in the vector representations of sentences. |
| Approach: | They propose a method of analysing the content of sentence embeddings based on probing tasks and contrasting languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is based on probing tasks and classification datasets for two contrasting languages. |
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