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Markdown (Informal)

[What are the Goals of Distributional Semantics?](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.663) (Emerson, ACL 2020)

• What are the Goals of Distributional Semantics? (Emerson, ACL 2020)

ACL

• Guy Emerson. 2020. What are the Goals of Distributional Semantics?. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 7436–7453, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.