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Markdown (Informal)
[Cross-Topic Distributional Semantic Representations Via Unsupervised Mappings](https://aclanthology.org/N19-1110/) (Briakou et al., NAACL 2019)
ACL
- Eleftheria Briakou, Nikos Athanasiou, and Alexandros Potamianos. 2019. Cross-Topic Distributional Semantic Representations Via Unsupervised Mappings. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers), pages 1052–1061, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics.