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%T Found in Translation: Reconstructing Phylogenetic Language Trees from Translations
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%A Ordan, Noam
%A Wintner, Shuly
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%Y Kan, Min-Yen
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[Found in Translation: Reconstructing Phylogenetic Language Trees from Translations](https://aclanthology.org/P17-1049) (Rabinovich et al., ACL 2017)

• Found in Translation: Reconstructing Phylogenetic Language Trees from Translations (Rabinovich et al., ACL 2017)

ACL

• Ella Rabinovich, Noam Ordan, and Shuly Wintner. 2017. Found in Translation: Reconstructing Phylogenetic Language Trees from Translations. In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 530–540, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.