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  <Title>ALGORITHMS THAT LEARN TO EXTRACT INFORMATION BBN: DESCRIPTION OF THE SIFT SYSTEM AS USED FOR MUC-7</Title>
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The work reported here was supported in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Technical agents for part of this work were Fort Huachucha and AFRL under contract numbers DABT6394-C-0062, F30602-97-C-0096, and 4132-BBN-001. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or the United States Government.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> We appreciate the contributions of the Annotation Group at BBN: Ann Albrect, Elizabeth Arentzen, Rachel Bers, Ada Brunstein, Georgina Garcia, Maia Mesnil, and Hugh Walsh.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> We thank Michael Collins of the University of Pennsylvania for his valuable suggestions.</Paragraph>
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