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title = "Known Words Will Do: Unknown Concept Translation via Lexical Relations",
author = "Wu, Winston and
Yarowsky, David",
editor = "Ojha, Atul Kr. and
Liu, Chao-Hong and
Vylomova, Ekaterina and
Abbott, Jade and
Washington, Jonathan and
Oco, Nathaniel and
Pirinen, Tommi A and
Malykh, Valentin and
Logacheva, Varvara and
Zhao, Xiaobing",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2022)",
month = oct,
year = "2022",
address = "Gyeongju, Republic of Korea",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.loresmt-1.3",
pages = "15--22",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Known Words Will Do: Unknown Concept Translation via Lexical Relations
%A Wu, Winston
%A Yarowsky, David
%Y Ojha, Atul Kr.
%Y Liu, Chao-Hong
%Y Vylomova, Ekaterina
%Y Abbott, Jade
%Y Washington, Jonathan
%Y Oco, Nathaniel
%Y Pirinen, Tommi A.
%Y Malykh, Valentin
%Y Logacheva, Varvara
%Y Zhao, Xiaobing
%S Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2022)
%D 2022
%8 October
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
%F wu-yarowsky-2022-known
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%P 15-22
Markdown (Informal)
[Known Words Will Do: Unknown Concept Translation via Lexical Relations](https://aclanthology.org/2022.loresmt-1.3) (Wu & Yarowsky, LoResMT 2022)
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