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title = "Endangered Languages meet {M}odern {NLP}",
author = "Anastasopoulos, Antonios and
Cox, Christopher and
Neubig, Graham and
Cruz, Hilaria",
editor = "Specia, Lucia and
Beck, Daniel",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts",
month = dec,
year = "2020",
address = "Barcelona, Spain (Online)",
publisher = "International Committee for Computational Linguistics",
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pages = "39--45",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Endangered Languages meet Modern NLP](https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-tutorials.7) (Anastasopoulos et al., COLING 2020)
ACL
- Antonios Anastasopoulos, Christopher Cox, Graham Neubig, and Hilaria Cruz. 2020. Endangered Languages meet Modern NLP. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts, pages 39–45, Barcelona, Spain (Online). International Committee for Computational Linguistics.