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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Developing a Universal Dependencies Treebank for Alaskan Gwich’in
%A Andrews, Matthew Kirk
%A Coltekin, Cagri
%Y Bouma, Gosse
%Y Çöltekin, Çağrı
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Markdown (Informal)
[Developing a Universal Dependencies Treebank for Alaskan Gwich’in](https://aclanthology.org/2025.udw-1.18/) (Andrews & Coltekin, UDW-SyntaxFest 2025)
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