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title = "Interpretable Textual Neuron Representations for {NLP}",
author = {Poerner, Nina and
Roth, Benjamin and
Sch{\"u}tze, Hinrich},
editor = "Linzen, Tal and
Chrupa{\l}a, Grzegorz and
Alishahi, Afra",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2018 {EMNLP} Workshop {B}lackbox{NLP}: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for {NLP}",
month = nov,
year = "2018",
address = "Brussels, Belgium",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W18-5437",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-5437",
pages = "325--327",
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%T Interpretable Textual Neuron Representations for NLP
%A Poerner, Nina
%A Roth, Benjamin
%A Schütze, Hinrich
%Y Linzen, Tal
%Y Chrupała, Grzegorz
%Y Alishahi, Afra
%S Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP
%D 2018
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Brussels, Belgium
%F poerner-etal-2018-interpretable
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Markdown (Informal)
[Interpretable Textual Neuron Representations for NLP](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5437) (Poerner et al., EMNLP 2018)
ACL
- Nina Poerner, Benjamin Roth, and Hinrich Schütze. 2018. Interpretable Textual Neuron Representations for NLP. In Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, pages 325–327, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.