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\bibitem[Kudoh and Matsumoto(2000)]{kudo00}
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\bibitem[Ratnaparkhi(1996)]{Ratn96}
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\bibitem[Veenstra and van~den Bosch(2000)]{Veen00}
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\bibitem[Zavrel and Daelemans(1997)]{Zavr97}
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