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 Lei Liu & Min Zhu. 2022. Bertalign: Improved word embedding-based sentence alignment for Chinese–English parallel corpora of literary texts, *Digital Scholarship in the Humanities*. [https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqac089](https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqac089).
 
+## Funding
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+The work is supported by the MOE Foundation of Humanities and Social Sciences (Grant No. 17YJC740055).
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 ## Licence
 
 Bertalign is released under the [GNU General Public License v3.0](./LICENCE)