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Questions of Authorship: Attribution and Beyond A Lecture Delivered on the Occasion of the Roberto Busa Award ACH-ALLC 2001, New York

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Burrows, J. Questions of Authorship: Attribution and Beyond A Lecture Delivered on the Occasion of the Roberto Busa Award ACH-ALLC 2001, New York . Computers and the Humanities 37, 5–32 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021814530952

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