By treating such context word pairs as single dimensions, the vector space can represent target words from both languages, counting the target words' co-occurrences with the context words from the respective language.
a sourcetarget word pair (s, t) will be assigned similar vectors in the semantic space if the context words of s are translations of the context words of t. Cross-lingual semantic similarity between words can be measured using standard vector space similarity (Lee, 1999).