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title = "{V}erb{N}et Representations: Subevent Semantics for Transfer Verbs",
author = "Brown, Susan Windisch and
Bonn, Julia and
Gung, James and
Zaenen, Annie and
Pustejovsky, James and
Palmer, Martha",
editor = "Xue, Nianwen and
Croft, William and
Hajic, Jan and
Huang, Chu-Ren and
Oepen, Stephan and
Palmer, Martha and
Pustejovksy, James",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations",
month = aug,
year = "2019",
address = "Florence, Italy",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W19-3318",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-3318",
pages = "154--163",
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%A Bonn, Julia
%A Gung, James
%A Zaenen, Annie
%A Pustejovsky, James
%A Palmer, Martha
%Y Xue, Nianwen
%Y Croft, William
%Y Hajic, Jan
%Y Huang, Chu-Ren
%Y Oepen, Stephan
%Y Palmer, Martha
%Y Pustejovksy, James
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%D 2019
%8 August
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%C Florence, Italy
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Markdown (Informal)
[VerbNet Representations: Subevent Semantics for Transfer Verbs](https://aclanthology.org/W19-3318) (Brown et al., DMR 2019)
ACL
- Susan Windisch Brown, Julia Bonn, James Gung, Annie Zaenen, James Pustejovsky, and Martha Palmer. 2019. VerbNet Representations: Subevent Semantics for Transfer Verbs. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations, pages 154–163, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.