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%T A Distributional Model of Affordances in Semantic Type Coercion
%A McGregor, Stephen
%A Jezek, Elisabetta
%Y Dobnik, Simon
%Y Chatzikyriakidis, Stergios
%Y Demberg, Vera
%S Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics - Short Papers
%D 2019
%8 May
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Gothenburg, Sweden
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[A Distributional Model of Affordances in Semantic Type Coercion](https://aclanthology.org/W19-0501) (McGregor & Jezek, IWCS 2019)

• A Distributional Model of Affordances in Semantic Type Coercion (McGregor & Jezek, IWCS 2019)

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• Stephen McGregor and Elisabetta Jezek. 2019. A Distributional Model of Affordances in Semantic Type Coercion. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics - Short Papers, pages 1–7, Gothenburg, Sweden. Association for Computational Linguistics.