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title = "Boosting statistical tagger accuracy with simple rule-based grammars",
author = "Hulden, Mans and
Francom, Jerid",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'12)",
month = may,
year = "2012",
address = "Istanbul, Turkey",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/1075_Paper.pdf",
pages = "2114--2117",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Boosting statistical tagger accuracy with simple rule-based grammars](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/1075_Paper.pdf) (Hulden & Francom, LREC 2012)
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