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"text": "Because of the relatively strong performance of COPY on several languages, we propose an approach that combines COPY and HAKIMI2020, referred to as HAKIMI2020+COPY. Given a source language word, we first check whether it is in the target language embedding matrix. If so, we assume it is a word that does not require translation (e.g., a named entity) and copy it into the target language. 4 If the source language word is not in the target language embedding matrix, we apply HAKIMI2020 to find the target language translation under this model. This approach improves over both COPY and HAKIMI2020 for all languages, except Bengali, and gives substantial improvements on average. 5 Although COPY is a very simple approach, it is complementary to HAKIMI2020, and the two approaches can be effectively combined to improve BLI for OOVs.",
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