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pages = "6323--6329",
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%A Hurtado Bodell, Miriam
%A Arvidsson, Martin
%A Magnusson, Måns
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%Y Jiang, Jing
%Y Ng, Vincent
%Y Wan, Xiaojun
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%D 2019
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Hong Kong, China
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Markdown (Informal)
[Interpretable Word Embeddings via Informative Priors](https://aclanthology.org/D19-1661) (Hurtado Bodell et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
ACL
- Miriam Hurtado Bodell, Martin Arvidsson, and Måns Magnusson. 2019. Interpretable Word Embeddings via Informative Priors. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), pages 6323–6329, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.