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Unfinished Business: Construction and Maintenance of a Semantically Tagged Historical Parliamentary Corpus, UK Hansard from 1803 to the present day

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Unfinished Business: Construction and Maintenance of a Semantically Tagged Historical Parliamentary Corpus, UK Hansard from 1803 to the present day. / Coole, Matthew; Rayson, Paul; Mariani, John.
Proceedings of the Second ParlaCLARIN Workshop. ed. / Darja Fišer; Maria Eskevich; Franciska de Jong. Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2020. p. 23-27.

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Coole, M, Rayson, P & Mariani, J 2020, Unfinished Business: Construction and Maintenance of a Semantically Tagged Historical Parliamentary Corpus, UK Hansard from 1803 to the present day. in D Fišer, M Eskevich & F de Jong (eds), Proceedings of the Second ParlaCLARIN Workshop. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Paris, pp. 23-27. <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.parlaclarin-1.5>

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Coole, M., Rayson, P., & Mariani, J. (2020). Unfinished Business: Construction and Maintenance of a Semantically Tagged Historical Parliamentary Corpus, UK Hansard from 1803 to the present day. In D. Fišer, M. Eskevich, & F. de Jong (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second ParlaCLARIN Workshop (pp. 23-27). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.parlaclarin-1.5

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Coole M, Rayson P, Mariani J. Unfinished Business: Construction and Maintenance of a Semantically Tagged Historical Parliamentary Corpus, UK Hansard from 1803 to the present day. In Fišer D, Eskevich M, de Jong F, editors, Proceedings of the Second ParlaCLARIN Workshop. Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA). 2020. p. 23-27

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Coole, Matthew ; Rayson, Paul ; Mariani, John. / Unfinished Business : Construction and Maintenance of a Semantically Tagged Historical Parliamentary Corpus, UK Hansard from 1803 to the present day. Proceedings of the Second ParlaCLARIN Workshop. editor / Darja Fišer ; Maria Eskevich ; Franciska de Jong. Paris : European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2020. pp. 23-27

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