Joining forces to resolve lexical ambiguity: East meets West in Barcelona
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This paper describes the component models and combination model built as a joint effort between Swarthmore College, Hong Kong PolyU, and HKUST. Though other models described elsewhere contributed to the final combination model, this paper focuses solely on the joint contributions to the ”Swat-HK” effort.
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