Cross-lingual Visual Verb Sense Disambiguation

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Cross-lingual Visual Verb Sense Disambiguation. / Gella, Spandana; Elliott, Desmond; Keller, Frank.

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. 1998-2004.

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Gella, S, Elliott, D & Keller, F 2019, Cross-lingual Visual Verb Sense Disambiguation. 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. 1998-2004, 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/N19-1200

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Gella, S., Elliott, D., & Keller, F. (2019). Cross-lingual Visual Verb Sense Disambiguation. 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. 1998-2004). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/N19-1200

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Gella S, Elliott D, Keller F. Cross-lingual Visual Verb Sense Disambiguation. 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. 1998-2004 https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/N19-1200

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Gella, Spandana ; Elliott, Desmond ; Keller, Frank. / Cross-lingual Visual Verb Sense Disambiguation. 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. 1998-2004

Bibtex

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