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+cff-version: 1.2.0
+message: "If you use this software, please cite it as below."
+authors:
+- family-names: He
+given-names: Han
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0005-1778-917X"
+title: "HanLP: Han Language Processing"
+version: 2.1
+date-released: 2015-05-27
+url: "https://github.com/hankcs/HanLP"
+preferred-citation:
+	authors:
+	  - family-names: He
+		given-names: Han
+	  - family-names: Choi
+		given-names: Jinho D.
+	title: "The Stem Cell Hypothesis: Dilemma behind Multi-Task Learning with Transformer Encoders"
+	editors:
+	  - family-names: Moens
+		given-names: Marie-Francine
+	  - family-names: Huang
+		given-names: Xuanjing
+	  - family-names: Specia
+		given-names: Lucia
+	  - family-names: Yih
+		given-names: Scott Wen-tau
+	year: 2021
+	month: 11
+	date-released: 2021-11
+	conference:
+	  name: "2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing"
+	  place: "Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic"
+	  url: "https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.451"
+	doi: "10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.451"
+	url: "https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.451"
+	publisher: "Association for Computational Linguistics"
+	booktitle: "Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing"
+	location: "Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic"
+	pages: "5555-5577"