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author = "Villavicencio, Aline and
Yankama, Beracah and
Idiart, Marco and
Berwick, Robert",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Choukri, Khalid and
Declerck, Thierry and
Do{\u{g}}an, Mehmet U{\u{g}}ur and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Moreno, Asuncion and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'12)",
month = may,
year = "2012",
address = "Istanbul, Turkey",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
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pages = "2370--2374",
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%T A large scale annotated child language construction database
%A Villavicencio, Aline
%A Yankama, Beracah
%A Idiart, Marco
%A Berwick, Robert
%Y Calzolari, Nicoletta
%Y Choukri, Khalid
%Y Declerck, Thierry
%Y Doğan, Mehmet Uğur
%Y Maegaard, Bente
%Y Mariani, Joseph
%Y Moreno, Asuncion
%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%S Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’12)
%D 2012
%8 May
%I European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Istanbul, Turkey
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Markdown (Informal)
[A large scale annotated child language construction database](https://aclanthology.org/L12-1116/) (Villavicencio et al., LREC 2012)
ACL
- Aline Villavicencio, Beracah Yankama, Marco Idiart, and Robert Berwick. 2012. A large scale annotated child language construction database. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 2370–2374, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).