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author = "Calvo-Bartolom{\'e}, Lorena and
Fortes, Sa{\'u}l Blanco and
Cede{\~n}o, Erick and
Arenas-Garc{\'i}a, Jer{\'o}nimo",
editor = "Durrett, Greg and
Jian, Ping",
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year = "2026",
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pages = "556--565",
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%T pAtChWoRK: Patching the Pieces of Public Procurement Documents
%A Calvo-Bartolomé, Lorena
%A Fortes, Saúl Blanco
%A Cedeño, Erick
%A Arenas-García, Jerónimo
%Y Durrett, Greg
%Y Jian, Ping
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%D 2026
%8 July
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Markdown (Informal)
[pAtChWoRK: Patching the Pieces of Public Procurement Documents](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-demo.55/) (Calvo-Bartolomé et al., ACL 2026)
ACL
- Lorena Calvo-Bartolomé, Saúl Blanco Fortes, Erick Cedeño, and Jerónimo Arenas-García. 2026. pAtChWoRK: Patching the Pieces of Public Procurement Documents. In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations), pages 556–565, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.