Before revision:  In this paper, we propose DefSent, a sentence embedding method that uses definition sentences from a word dictionary  . Since dictionaries are available for many languages, DefSent is more broadly applicable than methods using NLI datasets without constructing additional datasets.
After revision:  In this paper, we propose DefSent, a sentence embedding method that uses definition sentences from a word dictionary , which performs comparably on unsupervised semantics textual similarity (STS) tasks and slightly better on SentEval tasks than conventional methods . Since dictionaries are available for many languages, DefSent is more broadly applicable than methods using NLI datasets without constructing additional datasets.