Combining Sentiment Lexica with a Multi-View Variational Autoencoder

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Combining Sentiment Lexica with a Multi-View Variational Autoencoder. / Hoyle, Alexander Miserlis; Wolf-sonkin, Lawrence; Wallach, Hanna; Cotterell, Ryan; Augenstein, Isabelle.

Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers). Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019. p. 635-640.

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Hoyle, AM, Wolf-sonkin, L, Wallach, H, Cotterell, R & Augenstein, I 2019, Combining Sentiment Lexica with a Multi-View Variational Autoencoder. in Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers). Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 635-640, 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - NAACL-HLT 2019, Minneapolis, United States, 03/06/2019. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/N19-1065

APA

Hoyle, A. M., Wolf-sonkin, L., Wallach, H., Cotterell, R., & Augenstein, I. (2019). Combining Sentiment Lexica with a Multi-View Variational Autoencoder. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers) (pp. 635-640). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/N19-1065

Vancouver

Hoyle AM, Wolf-sonkin L, Wallach H, Cotterell R, Augenstein I. Combining Sentiment Lexica with a Multi-View Variational Autoencoder. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers). Association for Computational Linguistics. 2019. p. 635-640 https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/N19-1065

Author

Hoyle, Alexander Miserlis ; Wolf-sonkin, Lawrence ; Wallach, Hanna ; Cotterell, Ryan ; Augenstein, Isabelle. / Combining Sentiment Lexica with a Multi-View Variational Autoencoder. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers). Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019. pp. 635-640

Bibtex

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