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  <Title>Linguistic Distances</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In many theoretical and applied areas of computational linguistics researchers operate with a notion of linguistic distance or, conversely, linguistic similarity, which is the focus of the present workshop.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> While many CL areas make frequent use of such notions, it has received little focused attention, an honorable exception being Lebart &amp; Rajman (2000). This workshop brings a number of these strands together, highlighting a number of common issues.</Paragraph>
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