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Syntactic Transformations on Distributed Representations

DAVID J. CHALMERS Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA Phone: (812) 855-6966 E-mail: [email protected]
Pages 53-62 | Published online: 24 Oct 2007

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