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%A Leins, Kobi
%A Lau, Jey Han
%A Baldwin, Timothy
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Markdown (Informal)

[Give Me Convenience and Give Her Death: Who Should Decide What Uses of NLP are Appropriate, and on What Basis?](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.261) (Leins et al., ACL 2020)

• Give Me Convenience and Give Her Death: Who Should Decide What Uses of NLP are Appropriate, and on What Basis? (Leins et al., ACL 2020)

ACL

• Kobi Leins, Jey Han Lau, and Timothy Baldwin. 2020. Give Me Convenience and Give Her Death: Who Should Decide What Uses of NLP are Appropriate, and on What Basis?. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 2908–2913, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.