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Markdown (Informal)

[On Forgetting to Cite Older Papers: An Analysis of the ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.699) (Bollmann & Elliott, ACL 2020)

• On Forgetting to Cite Older Papers: An Analysis of the ACL Anthology (Bollmann & Elliott, ACL 2020)

ACL

• Marcel Bollmann and Desmond Elliott. 2020. On Forgetting to Cite Older Papers: An Analysis of the ACL Anthology. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 7819–7827, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.