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Markdown (Informal)
[Language Embeddings for Typology and Cross-lingual Transfer Learning](https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.560/) (Yu et al., ACL-IJCNLP 2021)
ACL
- Dian Yu, Taiqi He, and Kenji Sagae. 2021. Language Embeddings for Typology and Cross-lingual Transfer Learning. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 7210–7225, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.