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author = "Roulon-Doko, Paulette and
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Guillaume, Bruno",
editor = "Haji{\v{c}}ov{\'a}, Eva and
Kahane, Sylvain",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, SyntaxFest 2025)",
month = aug,
year = "2025",
address = "Ljubljana, Slovenia",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.depling-1.9/",
pages = "93--102",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-290-9",
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%T A morpheme-based treebank for Gbaya, an Ubanguian language of Central Africa
%A Roulon-Doko, Paulette
%A Kahane, Sylvain
%A Guillaume, Bruno
%Y Hajičová, Eva
%Y Kahane, Sylvain
%S Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, SyntaxFest 2025)
%D 2025
%8 August
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[A morpheme-based treebank for Gbaya, an Ubanguian language of Central Africa](https://aclanthology.org/2025.depling-1.9/) (Roulon-Doko et al., DepLing-SyntaxFest 2025)
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