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| Challenge: | a crowdsourcing effort to annotate and link parallel texts has been unsuccessful . a data set of parallel texts in eleven languages is presented . |
| Approach: | They present a wikified data set of English sentences linked to Wikipedia pages . they use crowdsourcing to annotate the texts and perform crowdsourcing for complex annotations . |
| Outcome: | The proposed data set is valuable as it constitutes a rich resource . it includes annotated data of English sentences linked to translations in eleven languages . |
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