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title = "Compositional Phrase Alignment and Beyond",
author = "Arase, Yuki and
Tsujii, Jun{'}ichi",
editor = "Webber, Bonnie and
Cohn, Trevor and
He, Yulan and
Liu, Yang",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)",
month = nov,
year = "2020",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.125",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.125",
pages = "1611--1623",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Compositional Phrase Alignment and Beyond](https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.125) (Arase & Tsujii, EMNLP 2020)
ACL
- Yuki Arase and Jun’ichi Tsujii. 2020. Compositional Phrase Alignment and Beyond. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 1611–1623, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.