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DOI: 10.4230/DagRep.4.9.50
Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (Dagstuhl Seminar 14381)

Authors: Artur d'Avila Garcez, Marco Gori, Pascal Hitzler, and Luís C. Lamb

Published in: Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 4, Issue 9 (2015)

Abstract
This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 14381 "Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning", which was held from September 14th to 19th, 2014. This seminar brought together specialist in machine learning, knowledge representation and reasoning, computer vision and image understanding, natural language processing, and cognitive science. The aim of the seminar was to explore the interface among several fields that contribute to the effective integration of cognitive abilities such as learning, reasoning, vision and language understanding in intelligent and cognitive computational systems. The seminar consisted of contributed and invited talks, breakout and joint group discussion sessions.
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Artur d'Avila Garcez, Marco Gori, Pascal Hitzler, and Luís C. Lamb. Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (Dagstuhl Seminar 14381). In Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 4, Issue 9, pp. 50-84, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015)

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@Article{davilagarcez_et_al:DagRep.4.9.50,
  author =	{d'Avila Garcez, Artur and Gori, Marco and Hitzler, Pascal and Lamb, Lu{\'\i}s C.},
  title =	{{Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (Dagstuhl Seminar 14381)}},
  pages =	{50--84},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Reports},
  ISSN =	{2192-5283},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{4},
  number =	{9},
  editor =	{d'Avila Garcez, Artur and Gori, Marco and Hitzler, Pascal and Lamb, Lu{\'\i}s C.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagRep.4.9.50},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-48843},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagRep.4.9.50},
  annote =	{Keywords: Neural-symbolic computation, deep learning, image understanding, lifelong machine learning, natural language understanding, ontology learning}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DagRep.2.5.93
Cognitive Approaches for the Semantic Web (Dagstuhl Seminar 12221)

Authors: Dedre Gentner, Frank van Harmelen, Pascal Hitzler, Krzysztof Janowicz, and Kai-Uwe Kühnberger

Published in: Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 2, Issue 5 (2012)

Abstract
A major focus in the design of Semantic Web ontology languages used to be on finding a suitable balance between the expressivity of the language and the tractability of reasoning services defined over this language. This focus mirrors the original vision of a Web composed of machine readable and understandable data. Similarly to the classical Web a few years ago, the attention is recently shifting towards a user-centric vision of the Semantic Web. Essentially, the information stored on the Web is from and for humans. This new focus is not only reflected in the fast growing Linked Data Web but also in the increasing influence of research from cognitive science, human computer interaction, and machine-learning. Cognitive aspects emerge as an essential ingredient for future work on knowledge acquisition, representation, reasoning, and interactions on the Semantic Web. Visual interfaces have to support semantic-based retrieval and at the same time hide the complexity of the underlying reasoning machinery from the user. Analogical and similarity-based reasoning should assist users in browsing and navigating through the rapidly increasing amount of information. Instead of pre-defined conceptualizations of the world, the selection and conceptualization of relevant information has to be tailored to the user's context on-the-fly. This involves work on ontology modularization and context-awareness, but also approaches from ecological psychology such as affordance theory which also plays an increasing role in robotics and AI. During the Dagstuhl Seminar 12221 we discussed the most promising ways to move forward on the vision of bringing findings from cognitive science to the Semantic Web, and to create synergies between the different areas of research. While the seminar focused on the use of cognitive engineering for a user-centric Semantic Web, it also discussed the reverse direction, i.e., how can the Semantic Web work on knowledge representation and reasoning feed back to the cognitive science community.
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Dedre Gentner, Frank van Harmelen, Pascal Hitzler, Krzysztof Janowicz, and Kai-Uwe Kühnberger. Cognitive Approaches for the Semantic Web (Dagstuhl Seminar 12221). In Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 2, Issue 5, pp. 93-116, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2012)

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@Article{gentner_et_al:DagRep.2.5.93,
  author =	{Gentner, Dedre and van Harmelen, Frank and Hitzler, Pascal and Janowicz, Krzysztof and K\"{u}hnberger, Kai-Uwe},
  title =	{{Cognitive Approaches for the Semantic Web (Dagstuhl Seminar 12221)}},
  pages =	{93--116},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Reports},
  ISSN =	{2192-5283},
  year =	{2012},
  volume =	{2},
  number =	{5},
  editor =	{Gentner, Dedre and van Harmelen, Frank and Hitzler, Pascal and Janowicz, Krzysztof and K\"{u}hnberger, Kai-Uwe},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagRep.2.5.93},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-37115},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagRep.2.5.93},
  annote =	{Keywords: Cognitive methods, Semantic Web, Analogy and similarity-based reasoning, Semantic heterogeneity and context, Symbol grounding, Emerging semantics, Comonsense reasoning}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.10302.1
10302 Abstracts Collection – Learning paradigms in dynamic environments

Authors: Barbara Hammer, Pascal Hitzler, Wolfgang Maass, and Marc Toussaint

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 10302, Learning paradigms in dynamic environments (2010)

Abstract
From 25.07. to 30.07.2010, the Dagstuhl Seminar 10302 ``Learning paradigms in dynamic environments '' was held in Schloss Dagstuhl~--~Leibniz Center for Informatics. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section describes the seminar topics and goals in general. Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available.
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Barbara Hammer, Pascal Hitzler, Wolfgang Maass, and Marc Toussaint. 10302 Abstracts Collection – Learning paradigms in dynamic environments. In Learning paradigms in dynamic environments. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 10302, pp. 1-15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)

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@InProceedings{hammer_et_al:DagSemProc.10302.1,
  author =	{Hammer, Barbara and Hitzler, Pascal and Maass, Wolfgang and Toussaint, Marc},
  title =	{{10302 Abstracts Collection – Learning paradigms in dynamic environments}},
  booktitle =	{Learning paradigms in dynamic environments},
  pages =	{1--15},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{10302},
  editor =	{Barbara Hammer and Pascal Hitzler and Wolfgang Maass and Marc Toussaint},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.10302.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-28048},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.10302.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: Recurrent neural networks, Dynamic systems, Speech processing, Neurobiology, Neural-symbolic integration, Autonomous learning}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.10302.2
10302 Summary – Learning paradigms in dynamic environments

Authors: Barbara Hammer, Pascal Hitzler, Wolfgang Maass, and Marc Toussaint

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 10302, Learning paradigms in dynamic environments (2010)

Abstract
The seminar centered around problems which arise in the context of machine learning in dynamic environments. Particular emphasis was put on a couple of specific questions in this context: how to represent and abstract knowledge appropriately to shape the problem of learning in a partially unknown and complex environment and how to combine statistical inference and abstract symbolic representations; how to infer from few data and how to deal with non i.i.d. data, model revision and life-long learning; how to come up with efficient strategies to control realistic environments for which exploration is costly, the dimensionality is high and data are sparse; how to deal with very large settings; and how to apply these models in challenging application areas such as robotics, computer vision, or the web.
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Barbara Hammer, Pascal Hitzler, Wolfgang Maass, and Marc Toussaint. 10302 Summary – Learning paradigms in dynamic environments. In Learning paradigms in dynamic environments. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 10302, pp. 1-4, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)

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@InProceedings{hammer_et_al:DagSemProc.10302.2,
  author =	{Hammer, Barbara and Hitzler, Pascal and Maass, Wolfgang and Toussaint, Marc},
  title =	{{10302 Summary – Learning paradigms in dynamic environments}},
  booktitle =	{Learning paradigms in dynamic environments},
  pages =	{1--4},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{10302},
  editor =	{Barbara Hammer and Pascal Hitzler and Wolfgang Maass and Marc Toussaint},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.10302.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-28027},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.10302.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: Summary}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.08091.3
Approximate OWL Instance Retrieval with SCREECH

Authors: Pascal Hitzler, Markus Krötzsch, Sebastian Rudolph, and Tuvshintur Tserendorj

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 8091, Logic and Probability for Scene Interpretation (2008)

Abstract
With the increasing interest in expressive ontologies for the Semantic Web, it is critical to develop scalable and efficient ontology reasoning techniques that can properly cope with very high data volumes. For certain application domains, approximate reasoning solutions, which trade soundness or completeness for increased reasoning speed, will help to deal with the high computational complexities which state of the art ontology reasoning tools have to face. In this paper, we present a comprehensive overview of the SCREECH approach to approximate instance retrieval with OWL ontologies, which is based on the KAON2 algorithms, facilitating a compilation of OWL DL TBoxes into Datalog, which is tractable in terms of data complexity. We present three different instantiations of the Screech approach, and report on experiments which show that the gain in efficiency outweighs the number of introduced mistakes in the reasoning process.
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Pascal Hitzler, Markus Krötzsch, Sebastian Rudolph, and Tuvshintur Tserendorj. Approximate OWL Instance Retrieval with SCREECH. In Logic and Probability for Scene Interpretation. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 8091, pp. 1-8, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2008)

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@InProceedings{hitzler_et_al:DagSemProc.08091.3,
  author =	{Hitzler, Pascal and Kr\"{o}tzsch, Markus and Rudolph, Sebastian and Tserendorj, Tuvshintur},
  title =	{{Approximate OWL Instance Retrieval with SCREECH}},
  booktitle =	{Logic and Probability for Scene Interpretation},
  pages =	{1--8},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2008},
  volume =	{8091},
  editor =	{Anthony G. Cohn and David C. Hogg and Ralf M\"{o}ller and Bernd Neumann},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.08091.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-16157},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.08091.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: Description logics, automated reasoning, approximate reasoning, Horn logic}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.08041.1
08041 Abstracts Collection – Recurrent Neural Networks - Models, Capacities, and Applications

Authors: Luc De Raedt, Barbara Hammer, Pascal Hitzler, and Wolfgang Maass

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 8041, Recurrent Neural Networks- Models, Capacities, and Applications (2008)

Abstract
From January 20 to 25 2008, the Dagstuhl Seminar 08041 ``Recurrent Neural Networks- Models, Capacities, and Applications'' was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section describes the seminar topics and goals in general. Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available.
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Luc De Raedt, Barbara Hammer, Pascal Hitzler, and Wolfgang Maass. 08041 Abstracts Collection – Recurrent Neural Networks - Models, Capacities, and Applications. In Recurrent Neural Networks- Models, Capacities, and Applications. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 8041, pp. 1-16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2008)

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@InProceedings{deraedt_et_al:DagSemProc.08041.1,
  author =	{De Raedt, Luc and Hammer, Barbara and Hitzler, Pascal and Maass, Wolfgang},
  title =	{{08041 Abstracts Collection – Recurrent Neural Networks - Models, Capacities, and Applications}},
  booktitle =	{Recurrent Neural Networks- Models, Capacities, and Applications},
  pages =	{1--16},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2008},
  volume =	{8041},
  editor =	{Luc De Raedt and Barbara Hammer and Pascal Hitzler and Wolfgang Maass},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.08041.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-14250},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.08041.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: Recurrent Neural Networks, Neural-Symbolic Integration, Biological Models, Hybrid Models, Relational Learning Echo State Networks, Spike Prediction, Unsupervised Recurrent Networks}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.08041.2
08041 Summary – Recurrent Neural Networks - Models, Capacities, and Applications

Authors: Luc De Raedt, Barbara Hammer, Pascal Hitzler, and Wolfgang Maass

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 8041, Recurrent Neural Networks- Models, Capacities, and Applications (2008)

Abstract
The seminar centered around recurrent information processing in neural systems and its connections to brain sciences, on the one hand, and higher symbolic reasoning, on the other side. The goal was to explore connections across the disciplines and to tackle important questions which arise in all sub-disciplines such as representation of temporal information, generalization ability, inference, and learning.
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Luc De Raedt, Barbara Hammer, Pascal Hitzler, and Wolfgang Maass. 08041 Summary – Recurrent Neural Networks - Models, Capacities, and Applications. In Recurrent Neural Networks- Models, Capacities, and Applications. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 8041, pp. 1-4, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2008)

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@InProceedings{deraedt_et_al:DagSemProc.08041.2,
  author =	{De Raedt, Luc and Hammer, Barbara and Hitzler, Pascal and Maass, Wolfgang},
  title =	{{08041 Summary – Recurrent Neural Networks - Models, Capacities, and Applications}},
  booktitle =	{Recurrent Neural Networks- Models, Capacities, and Applications},
  pages =	{1--4},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2008},
  volume =	{8041},
  editor =	{Luc De Raedt and Barbara Hammer and Pascal Hitzler and Wolfgang Maass},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.08041.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-14243},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.08041.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: Recurrent networks}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.05371.4
Description Logic Programs: A Practical Choice For the Modelling of Ontologies

Authors: Pascal Hitzler, York Sure, and Rudi Studer

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 5371, Principles and Practices of Semantic Web Reasoning (2006)

Abstract
Knowledge representation using ontologies constitutes the heart of semantic technologies. Despite successful standardization efforts by the W3C, however, there are still numerous different ontology representation languages being used, and interoperability between them is in general not given. The problem is aggrevated by the fact that current standards lay foundations only and are well-known to be insufficient for the modelling of finer details. Thus, a plethora of extensions of the basic languages is being proposed, rendering the picture of ontology representation languages to be chaotic, to say the least. While semantic technologies start to become applicable and are being applied in adjacent areas of research and in research projects with industrial participation, and can soon be expected to become an integral part of industrial applications, the practitioner is faced with the difficult task of choosing his basic ontology representation paradigm. We will argue that the OWL subset known as Description Logic Programs constitutes a very reasonable choice.
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Pascal Hitzler, York Sure, and Rudi Studer. Description Logic Programs: A Practical Choice For the Modelling of Ontologies. In Principles and Practices of Semantic Web Reasoning. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 5371, pp. 1-10, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2006)

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@InProceedings{hitzler_et_al:DagSemProc.05371.4,
  author =	{Hitzler, Pascal and Sure, York and Studer, Rudi},
  title =	{{Description Logic Programs: A Practical Choice For the Modelling of Ontologies}},
  booktitle =	{Principles and Practices of Semantic Web Reasoning},
  pages =	{1--10},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2006},
  volume =	{5371},
  editor =	{Fran\c{c}ois Bry and Fran\c{c}ois Fages and Massimo Marchiori and Hans-J\"{u}rgen Ohlbach},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.05371.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-4783},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.05371.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: Description Logic Programs}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.05371.5
Faster OWL Using Split Programs

Authors: Pascal Hitzler and Denny Vrandecic

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 5371, Principles and Practices of Semantic Web Reasoning (2006)

Abstract
We propose a new technique for approximate ABox reasoning with OWL DL ontologies. Essentially, we obtain substantially improved reasoning performance by disregarding non-Horn features of OWL DL. Our approach comes as a side-product of recent research results concerning a new transformation of OWL DL ontologies into negation-free disjunctive datalog, and rests on the idea of performing standard resolution over disjunctive rules by treating them as if they were non-disjunctive ones. We analyse our reasoning approach by means of non-monotonic reasoning techniques, and present an implementation, called Screech.
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Pascal Hitzler and Denny Vrandecic. Faster OWL Using Split Programs. In Principles and Practices of Semantic Web Reasoning. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 5371, pp. 1-2, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2006)

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@InProceedings{hitzler_et_al:DagSemProc.05371.5,
  author =	{Hitzler, Pascal and Vrandecic, Denny},
  title =	{{Faster OWL Using Split Programs}},
  booktitle =	{Principles and Practices of Semantic Web Reasoning},
  pages =	{1--2},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2006},
  volume =	{5371},
  editor =	{Fran\c{c}ois Bry and Fran\c{c}ois Fages and Massimo Marchiori and Hans-J\"{u}rgen Ohlbach},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.05371.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-4803},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.05371.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: OWL DL, Approximate Reasoning, Logic Programming}
}
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