README.md

---
language: multilingual

tags:
- biomedical
- lexical-semantics
- cross-lingual

datasets:
- UMLS

**[news]** A cross-lingual extension of SapBERT will appear in the main onference of **ACL 2021**! <br>
**[news]** SapBERT will appear in the conference proceedings of **NAACL 2021**!

### SapBERT-XLMR
SapBERT [(Liu et al. 2020)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.11784.pdf) trained with [UMLS](https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/licensedcontent/umlsknowledgesources.html) 2020AB, using [xlm-roberta-base](https://huggingface.co/xlm-roberta-base) as the base model. Please use [CLS] as the representation of the input.

### Citation

```bibtex
@article{liu2020self,
  title={Self-alignment Pre-training for Biomedical Entity Representations},
  author={Liu, Fangyu and Shareghi, Ehsan and Meng, Zaiqiao and Basaldella, Marco and Collier, Nigel},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.11784},
  year={2020}
}

```