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Proceedings of the 10th international conference on World Wide Web table of contents

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Pages: 150 - 161

Year of Publication: 2001

ISBN:1-58113-348-0

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Cody C. T. Kwok	University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Oren Etzioni	University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Daniel S. Weld	University of Washington, Seattle, WA

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SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web
SIGLINK: Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web
IW3C2 : International World Wide Web Conference Committee

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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