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title = "Sudden Semantic Shifts in {S}wedish {NATO} discourse",
author = "Bonafilia, Brian and
Bruinsma, Bastiaan and
Saynova, Denitsa and
Johansson, Moa",
editor = "Padmakumar, Vishakh and
Vallejo, Gisela and
Fu, Yao",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop)",
month = jul,
year = "2023",
address = "Toronto, Canada",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-srw.28",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.acl-srw.28",
pages = "184--193",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Sudden Semantic Shifts in Swedish NATO discourse](https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-srw.28) (Bonafilia et al., ACL 2023)
ACL
- Brian Bonafilia, Bastiaan Bruinsma, Denitsa Saynova, and Moa Johansson. 2023. Sudden Semantic Shifts in Swedish NATO discourse. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop), pages 184–193, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.