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title = "Predicting Brain Activation with {W}ord{N}et Embeddings",
author = "Ant{\'o}nio Rodrigues, Jo{\~a}o and
Branco, Ruben and
Silva, Jo{\~a}o and
Saedi, Chakaveh and
Branco, Ant{\'o}nio",
editor = "Idiart, Marco and
Lenci, Alessandro and
Poibeau, Thierry and
Villavicencio, Aline",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eight Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning and Processing",
month = jul,
year = "2018",
address = "Melbourne",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
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pages = "1--5",
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%A Silva, João
%A Saedi, Chakaveh
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%Y Idiart, Marco
%Y Lenci, Alessandro
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%Y Villavicencio, Aline
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Markdown (Informal)
[Predicting Brain Activation with WordNet Embeddings](https://aclanthology.org/W18-2801) (António Rodrigues et al., CogACLL 2018)
ACL
- João António Rodrigues, Ruben Branco, João Silva, Chakaveh Saedi, and António Branco. 2018. Predicting Brain Activation with WordNet Embeddings. In Proceedings of the Eight Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning and Processing, pages 1–5, Melbourne. Association for Computational Linguistics.