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title = "{SLATE}: A Super-Lightweight Annotation Tool for Experts",
author = "Kummerfeld, Jonathan K.",
editor = "Costa-juss{\`a}, Marta R. and
Alfonseca, Enrique",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations",
month = jul,
year = "2019",
address = "Florence, Italy",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
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pages = "7--12",
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Markdown (Informal)
[SLATE: A Super-Lightweight Annotation Tool for Experts](https://aclanthology.org/P19-3002/) (Kummerfeld, ACL 2019)
ACL
- Jonathan K. Kummerfeld. 2019. SLATE: A Super-Lightweight Annotation Tool for Experts. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 7–12, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.