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author = "Wilkinson, Bryan and
Tim, Oates",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Choukri, Khalid and
Declerck, Thierry and
Goggi, Sara and
Grobelnik, Marko and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Mazo, Helene and
Moreno, Asuncion and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios",
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%Y Goggi, Sara
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%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
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Markdown (Informal)
[A Gold Standard for Scalar Adjectives](https://aclanthology.org/L16-1424) (Wilkinson & Tim, LREC 2016)
ACL
- Bryan Wilkinson and Oates Tim. 2016. A Gold Standard for Scalar Adjectives. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 2669–2675, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).