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Decrypting Cryptic Crosswords: Semantically Complex Wordplay Puzzles as a Target for NLP

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Main Authors:	Rozner, Josh, Potts, Christopher, Mahowald, Kyle
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2021
Subjects:	Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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