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  <Title>Language Independent NER using a Maximum Entropy Tagger</Title>
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Acknowledgements
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We would like to thank Jochen Leidner for help collecting the Gazetteers. This research was supported by a Commonwealth scholarship and a Sydney University Travelling scholarship to the first author, and EPSRC grant GR/M96889.</Paragraph>
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