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title = "Improving Graph-Based Text Representations with Character and Word Level N-grams",
author = "Li, Wenzhe and
Aletras, Nikolaos",
editor = "He, Yulan and
Ji, Heng and
Li, Sujian and
Liu, Yang and
Chang, Chua-Hui",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)",
month = nov,
year = "2022",
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pages = "228--233",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Improving Graph-Based Text Representations with Character and Word Level N-grams](https://aclanthology.org/2022.aacl-short.29) (Li & Aletras, AACL-IJCNLP 2022)
ACL
- Wenzhe Li and Nikolaos Aletras. 2022. Improving Graph-Based Text Representations with Character and Word Level N-grams. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 228–233, Online only. Association for Computational Linguistics.