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title = "Low-Resource Translation as Language Modeling",
author = "Berckmann, Tucker and
Hiziroglu, Berkan",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation",
month = nov,
year = "2020",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.127",
pages = "1079--1083",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Low-Resource Translation as Language Modeling](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.127) (Berckmann & Hiziroglu, WMT 2020)
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