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Summarizing text documents: sentence selection and evaluation metrics

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        SIGIR '99: Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
        August 1999
        339 pages
        ISBN:1581130961
        DOI:10.1145/312624

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