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  <Title>Syntax-based Alignment of Multiple Translations: Extracting Paraphrases and Generating New Sentences</Title>
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Acknowledgments
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We thank Hal Daum'e III, Ulrich Germann, and Ulf Hermjakob for help and discussions; Eric Breck, Hubert Chen, Stephen Chong, Dan Kifer, and Kevin O'Neill for participating in the human evaluation; and the Cornell NLP group and the reviewers for their comments on this paper. We especially want to thank Regina Barzilay and Lillian Lee for many valuable suggestions and help at various stages of this work. Portions of this work were done while the first author was visiting Information Sciences Institute. This work was supported by the Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA)'s Advance Question Answering for Intelligence (AQUAINT) Program under contract number MDA908-02-C-0007, the National Science Foundation under ITR/IM grant IIS0081334 and a Sloan Research Fellowship to Lillian Lee.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed above are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or the Sloan Foundation.</Paragraph>
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