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title = "({R}e)construing Meaning in {NLP}",
author = "Trott, Sean and
Torrent, Tiago Timponi and
Chang, Nancy and
Schneider, Nathan",
editor = "Jurafsky, Dan and
Chai, Joyce and
Schluter, Natalie and
Tetreault, Joel",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
month = jul,
year = "2020",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.462",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.462",
pages = "5170--5184",
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Markdown (Informal)
[(Re)construing Meaning in NLP](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.462) (Trott et al., ACL 2020)
ACL
- Sean Trott, Tiago Timponi Torrent, Nancy Chang, and Nathan Schneider. 2020. (Re)construing Meaning in NLP. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 5170–5184, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.