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Towards a Multilingual Financial Narrative Processing System. / El Haj, Mahmoud; Rayson, Paul Edward; Alves, Paulo et al.
The First Financial Narrative Processing Workshop: Proceedings of the 11th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference - Miyazaki, Japan. ed. / Mahmoud El-Haj; Paul Rayson; Andrew Moore. 2018. p. 52-58.

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El Haj, M, Rayson, PE, Alves, P & Young, SE 2018, Towards a Multilingual Financial Narrative Processing System. in M El-Haj, P Rayson & A Moore (eds), The First Financial Narrative Processing Workshop: Proceedings of the 11th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference - Miyazaki, Japan. pp. 52-58, The 1st Financial Narrative Processing Workshop in LREC 2018, Miyazaki, Japan, 7/05/18. <http://lrec-conf.org/workshops/lrec2018/W27/pdf/book_of_proceedings.pdf>

APA

El Haj, M., Rayson, P. E., Alves, P., & Young, S. E. (2018). Towards a Multilingual Financial Narrative Processing System. In M. El-Haj, P. Rayson, & A. Moore (Eds.), The First Financial Narrative Processing Workshop: Proceedings of the 11th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference - Miyazaki, Japan (pp. 52-58) http://lrec-conf.org/workshops/lrec2018/W27/pdf/book_of_proceedings.pdf

Vancouver

El Haj M, Rayson PE, Alves P, Young SE. Towards a Multilingual Financial Narrative Processing System. In El-Haj M, Rayson P, Moore A, editors, The First Financial Narrative Processing Workshop: Proceedings of the 11th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference - Miyazaki, Japan. 2018. p. 52-58

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El Haj, Mahmoud ; Rayson, Paul Edward ; Alves, Paulo et al. / Towards a Multilingual Financial Narrative Processing System. The First Financial Narrative Processing Workshop: Proceedings of the 11th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference - Miyazaki, Japan. editor / Mahmoud El-Haj ; Paul Rayson ; Andrew Moore. 2018. pp. 52-58

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