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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.