What a Creole Wants, What a Creole Needs

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What a Creole Wants, What a Creole Needs. / Lent, Heather; Ogueji, Kelechi; de Lhoneux, Miryam; Ahia, Orevaoghene; Søgaard, Anders.

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. ed. / Nicoletta Calzolari; Frederic Bechet; Philippe Blache; Khalid Choukri; Christopher Cieri; Thierry Declerck; Sara Goggi; Hitoshi Isahara; Bente Maegaard; Joseph Mariani; Helene Mazo; Jan Odijk; Stelios Piperidis. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2022. p. 6439-6449.

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Harvard

Lent, H, Ogueji, K, de Lhoneux, M, Ahia, O & Søgaard, A 2022, What a Creole Wants, What a Creole Needs. in N Calzolari, F Bechet, P Blache, K Choukri, C Cieri, T Declerck, S Goggi, H Isahara, B Maegaard, J Mariani, H Mazo, J Odijk & S Piperidis (eds), Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 6439-6449, 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022, Marseille, France, 20/06/2022.

APA

Lent, H., Ogueji, K., de Lhoneux, M., Ahia, O., & Søgaard, A. (2022). What a Creole Wants, What a Creole Needs. In N. Calzolari, F. Bechet, P. Blache, K. Choukri, C. Cieri, T. Declerck, S. Goggi, H. Isahara, B. Maegaard, J. Mariani, H. Mazo, J. Odijk, & S. Piperidis (Eds.), Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (pp. 6439-6449). European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

Vancouver

Lent H, Ogueji K, de Lhoneux M, Ahia O, Søgaard A. What a Creole Wants, What a Creole Needs. In Calzolari N, Bechet F, Blache P, Choukri K, Cieri C, Declerck T, Goggi S, Isahara H, Maegaard B, Mariani J, Mazo H, Odijk J, Piperidis S, editors, Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). 2022. p. 6439-6449

Author

Lent, Heather ; Ogueji, Kelechi ; de Lhoneux, Miryam ; Ahia, Orevaoghene ; Søgaard, Anders. / What a Creole Wants, What a Creole Needs. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. editor / Nicoletta Calzolari ; Frederic Bechet ; Philippe Blache ; Khalid Choukri ; Christopher Cieri ; Thierry Declerck ; Sara Goggi ; Hitoshi Isahara ; Bente Maegaard ; Joseph Mariani ; Helene Mazo ; Jan Odijk ; Stelios Piperidis. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2022. pp. 6439-6449

Bibtex

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