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title = "Probing Classifiers: Promises, Shortcomings, and Advances",
author = "Belinkov, Yonatan",
journal = "Computational Linguistics",
volume = "48",
number = "1",
month = mar,
year = "2022",
address = "Cambridge, MA",
publisher = "MIT Press",
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doi = "10.1162/coli_a_00422",
pages = "207--219",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Probing Classifiers: Promises, Shortcomings, and Advances](https://aclanthology.org/2022.cl-1.7) (Belinkov, CL 2022)
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