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  <Title>An Empirical Study of Information Synthesis Tasks</Title>
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Acknowledgments
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This research has been partially supported by a grant of the Spanish Government, project HERMES (TIC-2000-0335-C03-01). We are indebted to E.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Hovy for his comments on an earlier version of this paper, and C. Y. Lin for his assistance with the ROUGE measure. Thanks also to our volunteers for their valuable cooperation.</Paragraph>
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