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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Itihasa: A large-scale corpus for Sanskrit to English translation
%A Aralikatte, Rahul
%A de Lhoneux, Miryam
%A Kunchukuttan, Anoop
%A Søgaard, Anders
%S Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT2021)
%D 2021
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Online
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[Itihasa: A large-scale corpus for Sanskrit to English translation](https://aclanthology.org/2021.wat-1.22) (Aralikatte et al., WAT 2021)

• Itihasa: A large-scale corpus for Sanskrit to English translation (Aralikatte et al., WAT 2021)

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• Rahul Aralikatte, Miryam de Lhoneux, Anoop Kunchukuttan, and Anders Søgaard. 2021. Itihasa: A large-scale corpus for Sanskrit to English translation. In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT2021), pages 191–197, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.