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title = "{ITER}: Improving Translation Edit Rate through Optimizable Edit Costs",
author = "Panja, Joybrata and
Naskar, Sudip Kumar",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers",
month = oct,
year = "2018",
address = "Belgium, Brussels",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W18-6455",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-6455",
pages = "746--750",
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Markdown (Informal)
[ITER: Improving Translation Edit Rate through Optimizable Edit Costs](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6455) (Panja & Naskar, 2018)
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