We compare VLAWE with recent stateof-the-art methods Cheng et al., 2018; Fu et al., 2018; <cite>Hill et al., 2016</cite>; Iyyer et al., 2015; Kim, 2014; Kiros et al., 2015; Le and Mikolov, 2014; Liu et al., 2017; Shen et al., 2018; Torki, 2018; Xue and Zhou, 2009; Zhao et al., 2015; Zhou et al., 2016 Zhou et al., , 2018 , demonstrating the effectiveness of our approach.