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%A Naumann, Daniela
%A Frassinelli, Diego
%A Schulte im Walde, Sabine
%Y Nissim, Malvina
%Y Berant, Jonathan
%Y Lenci, Alessandro
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[Quantitative Semantic Variation in the Contexts of Concrete and Abstract Words](https://aclanthology.org/S18-2008) (Naumann et al., *SEM 2018)

• Quantitative Semantic Variation in the Contexts of Concrete and Abstract Words (Naumann et al., *SEM 2018)

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• Daniela Naumann, Diego Frassinelli, and Sabine Schulte im Walde. 2018. Quantitative Semantic Variation in the Contexts of Concrete and Abstract Words. In Proceedings of the Seventh Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, pages 76–85, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.