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booktitle = "Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Research Papers",
month = oct # " 28-" # nov # " 1",
year = "2012",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Interpolated Backoff for Factored Translation Models](https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-papers.9) (Koehn & Haddow, AMTA 2012)
ACL
- Philipp Koehn and Barry Haddow. 2012. Interpolated Backoff for Factored Translation Models. In Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Research Papers, San Diego, California, USA. Association for Machine Translation in the Americas.