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title = "Predicting human translation quality",
author = "Specia, Lucia and
Shah, Kashif",
editor = "Al-Onaizan, Yaser and
Simard, Michel",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: MT Researchers Track",
month = oct # " 22-26",
year = "2014",
address = "Vancouver, Canada",
publisher = "Association for Machine Translation in the Americas",
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pages = "288--300",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Predicting human translation quality](https://aclanthology.org/2014.amta-researchers.22) (Specia & Shah, AMTA 2014)
ACL
- Lucia Specia and Kashif Shah. 2014. Predicting human translation quality. In Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: MT Researchers Track, pages 288–300, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Machine Translation in the Americas.