Pun Generation with Surprise
He He, Nanyun Peng, and Percy Liang, in 2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2019), 2019.
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@inproceedings{he2019pun,
title = {Pun Generation with Surprise},
author = {He, He and Peng, Nanyun and Liang, Percy},
booktitle = {2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2019)},
volume = {1},
year = {2019}
}
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He He, Nanyun Peng, and Percy Liang, in 2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2019), 2019.
Full Text BibTeX DetailsDetails@inproceedings{he2019pun, title = {Pun Generation with Surprise}, author = {He, He and Peng, Nanyun and Liang, Percy}, booktitle = {2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2019)}, volume = {1}, year = {2019} }