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%T Translating a Language You Don’t Know In the Chinese Room
%A Hermjakob, Ulf
%A May, Jonathan
%A Pust, Michael
%A Knight, Kevin
%Y Liu, Fei
%Y Solorio, Thamar
%S Proceedings of ACL 2018, System Demonstrations
%D 2018
%8 July
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Markdown (Informal)

[Translating a Language You Don’t Know In the Chinese Room](https://aclanthology.org/P18-4011) (Hermjakob et al., ACL 2018)

• Translating a Language You Don’t Know In the Chinese Room (Hermjakob et al., ACL 2018)

ACL

• Ulf Hermjakob, Jonathan May, Michael Pust, and Kevin Knight. 2018. Translating a Language You Don’t Know In the Chinese Room. In Proceedings of ACL 2018, System Demonstrations, pages 62–67, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.