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title = "Sentence Representations via {G}aussian Embedding",
author = "Yoda, Shohei and
Tsukagoshi, Hayato and
Sasano, Ryohei and
Takeda, Koichi",
editor = "Graham, Yvette and
Purver, Matthew",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)",
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year = "2024",
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pages = "418--425",
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%T Sentence Representations via Gaussian Embedding
%A Yoda, Shohei
%A Tsukagoshi, Hayato
%A Sasano, Ryohei
%A Takeda, Koichi
%Y Graham, Yvette
%Y Purver, Matthew
%S Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
%D 2024
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%C St. Julian’s, Malta
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Markdown (Informal)
[Sentence Representations via Gaussian Embedding](https://aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-short.36) (Yoda et al., EACL 2024)
ACL
- Shohei Yoda, Hayato Tsukagoshi, Ryohei Sasano, and Koichi Takeda. 2024. Sentence Representations via Gaussian Embedding. In Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 418–425, St. Julian’s, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.