reviewers ' main concern was about the need for additional baselines

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We thank the reviewers for their constructive feedback. Reviewers found our method to be novel (rev. We also include the linear FastText baseline. Our new Table 3 reflects this comparison to standard models. We anticipate our performance to be competitive but somewhat lower (they report an LSD of 2.5; our RNN is better for presentation, and will do so in the paper.