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            Emergent Linguistic Structures in Neural Networks are Fragile </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Emanuele La Malfa&#x201a; Matthew Wicker and Marta Kwiatkowska  </em> </p>
	
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 2022.
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            href="/publications/publication15861-abstract.html"> Details   <span class="sr-only" > about <em> Emergent Linguistic Structures in Neural Networks are Fragile  </em></span> </a> | <a
        
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            The King is Naked: on the Notion of Robustness for Natural Language Processing </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Emanuele LaMalfa and Marta Kwiatkowska  </em> </p>
	
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 2021.
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            On Guaranteed Optimal Robust Explanations for NLP Models </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Emanuele La Malfa&#x201a; Agnieszka Zbrzezny&#x201a; Rhiannon Michelmore&#x201a; Nicola Paoletti and Marta Kwiatkowska  </em> </p>
	
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 2021.
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