We use the shorthand The Sense Model makes the assumption, inspired by ideas in Diab and Resnik (2002) and Bengio and Kermorvant (2003), that the English word 3 ¡ and the Spanish word 7 £ in a translation pair share the same precise sense.
the set of sense labels for the words in the two languages is the same and may be collapsed into one set of senses that is responsible for both English and Spanish words and the single latent variable in the model is the sense label for both words .