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      <p ns="0" title="Chapter 5: Technical manual" snippet="...ch better if the transcription program itself was aware of these clusters, &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt;, if the relationships between words and clusters was reflected in the under&#10;" size="10950" wordcount="1817" timestamp="2011-12-12T09:41:52Z" />
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