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title = "Automated {W}ord{N}et Construction Using Word Embeddings",
author = "Khodak, Mikhail and
Risteski, Andrej and
Fellbaum, Christiane and
Arora, Sanjeev",
editor = "Camacho-Collados, Jose and
Pilehvar, Mohammad Taher",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Sense, Concept and Entity Representations and their Applications",
month = apr,
year = "2017",
address = "Valencia, Spain",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
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doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1902",
pages = "12--23",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Automated WordNet Construction Using Word Embeddings](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1902) (Khodak et al., SENSE 2017)
ACL
- Mikhail Khodak, Andrej Risteski, Christiane Fellbaum, and Sanjeev Arora. 2017. Automated WordNet Construction Using Word Embeddings. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Sense, Concept and Entity Representations and their Applications, pages 12–23, Valencia, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.