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title = "El-{WOZ}: a client-server wizard-of-oz interface",
author = "Pellegrini, Thomas and
Hedayati, Vahid and
Costa, Angela",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Choukri, Khalid and
Declerck, Thierry and
Loftsson, Hrafn and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Moreno, Asuncion and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'14)",
month = may,
year = "2014",
address = "Reykjavik, Iceland",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/959_Paper.pdf",
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%T El-WOZ: a client-server wizard-of-oz interface
%A Pellegrini, Thomas
%A Hedayati, Vahid
%A Costa, Angela
%Y Calzolari, Nicoletta
%Y Choukri, Khalid
%Y Declerck, Thierry
%Y Loftsson, Hrafn
%Y Maegaard, Bente
%Y Mariani, Joseph
%Y Moreno, Asuncion
%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
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%D 2014
%8 May
%I European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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Markdown (Informal)
[El-WOZ: a client-server wizard-of-oz interface](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/959_Paper.pdf) (Pellegrini et al., LREC 2014)
ACL
- Thomas Pellegrini, Vahid Hedayati, and Angela Costa. 2014. El-WOZ: a client-server wizard-of-oz interface. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).