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title = "Multi-Task Learning for Coherence Modeling",
author = "Farag, Youmna and
Yannakoudakis, Helen",
editor = "Korhonen, Anna and
Traum, David and
M{\`a}rquez, Llu{\'\i}s",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
month = jul,
year = "2019",
address = "Florence, Italy",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/P19-1060",
doi = "10.18653/v1/P19-1060",
pages = "629--639",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Multi-Task Learning for Coherence Modeling](https://aclanthology.org/P19-1060) (Farag & Yannakoudakis, ACL 2019)
ACL
- Youmna Farag and Helen Yannakoudakis. 2019. Multi-Task Learning for Coherence Modeling. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 629–639, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.