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  <Title>Utterance Segmentation Using Combined Approach Based on Bi-directional N-gram and Maximum Entropy</Title>
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Acknowledgements
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This work is sponsored by the Natural Sciences Foundation of China under grant No.60175012, as well as supported by the National Key Fundamental Research Program (the 973 Program) of China under the grant G1998030504.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The authors are very grateful to Dr. Mark Seligman for his very useful suggestions and his very careful proofreading.</Paragraph>
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