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title = "Using Coreference Links to Improve {S}panish-to-{E}nglish Machine Translation",
author = "Miculicich Werlen, Lesly and
Popescu-Belis, Andrei",
editor = "Ogrodniczuk, Maciej and
Ng, Vincent",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Coreference Resolution Beyond {O}nto{N}otes ({CORBON} 2017)",
month = apr,
year = "2017",
address = "Valencia, Spain",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W17-1505",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1505",
pages = "30--40",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Using Coreference Links to Improve Spanish-to-English Machine Translation
%A Miculicich Werlen, Lesly
%A Popescu-Belis, Andrei
%Y Ogrodniczuk, Maciej
%Y Ng, Vincent
%S Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Coreference Resolution Beyond OntoNotes (CORBON 2017)
%D 2017
%8 April
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Valencia, Spain
%F miculicich-werlen-popescu-belis-2017-using
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%P 30-40
Markdown (Informal)
[Using Coreference Links to Improve Spanish-to-English Machine Translation](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1505) (Miculicich Werlen & Popescu-Belis, CORBON 2017)
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