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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Distinguishing Address vs. Reference Mentions of Personal Names in Text
%A Prabhakaran, Vinodkumar
%A Mostafazadeh Davani, Aida
%A Ferguson, Melissa
%A Atir, Stav
%Y Rogers, Anna
%Y Boyd-Graber, Jordan
%Y Okazaki, Naoaki
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
%D 2023
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Toronto, Canada
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Markdown (Informal)

[Distinguishing Address vs. Reference Mentions of Personal Names in Text](https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.425/) (Prabhakaran et al., Findings 2023)

• Distinguishing Address vs. Reference Mentions of Personal Names in Text (Prabhakaran et al., Findings 2023)

ACL

• Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Melissa Ferguson, and Stav Atir. 2023. Distinguishing Address vs. Reference Mentions of Personal Names in Text. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, pages 6801–6809, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.