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title = "Reasoning Requirements for Indirect Speech Act Interpretation",
author = "Sarathy, Vasanth and
Tsuetaki, Alexander and
Roque, Antonio and
Scheutz, Matthias",
editor = "Scott, Donia and
Bel, Nuria and
Zong, Chengqing",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
month = dec,
year = "2020",
address = "Barcelona, Spain (Online)",
publisher = "International Committee on Computational Linguistics",
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doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.433",
pages = "4937--4948",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Reasoning Requirements for Indirect Speech Act Interpretation](https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.433) (Sarathy et al., COLING 2020)
ACL
- Vasanth Sarathy, Alexander Tsuetaki, Antonio Roque, and Matthias Scheutz. 2020. Reasoning Requirements for Indirect Speech Act Interpretation. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 4937–4948, Barcelona, Spain (Online). International Committee on Computational Linguistics.