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 Gen was created at the [MIT Probabilistic Computing Project](http://probcomp.csail.mit.edu/). To get in contact, please email gen-contact@mit.edu.
 
-If you use Gen in your research, please cite the our 2019 PLDI paper:
+If you use Gen in your research, please cite our 2019 PLDI paper:
 
 Gen: A General-Purpose Probabilistic Programming System with Programmable Inference. Cusumano-Towner, M. F.; Saad, F. A.; Lew, A.; and Mansinghka, V. K.
 In Proceedings of the 40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI ‘19). ([pdf](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3314221.3314642)) ([bibtex](https://www.gen.dev/assets/gen-pldi.txt))