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author = "Dholakia, Rohit and
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pages = "315--328",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Pivot-based triangulation for low-resource languages](https://aclanthology.org/2014.amta-researchers.24) (Dholakia & Sarkar, AMTA 2014)
ACL
- Rohit Dholakia and Anoop Sarkar. 2014. Pivot-based triangulation for low-resource languages. In Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: MT Researchers Track, pages 315–328, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Machine Translation in the Americas.