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Volume 39 , Issue 1 (January 1996) table of contents

Pages: 92 - 101

Year of Publication: 1996

ISSN:0001-0782

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David D. Lewis	AT&T Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ
Karen Spärck Jones	Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, England

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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