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Wang, Bo and
Tsakalidis, Adam and
Nguyen, Dong and
Procter, Rob and
Liakata, Maria",
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Nenkova, Ani",
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year = "2022",
address = "Cambridge, MA",
publisher = "MIT Press",
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pages = "1229--1248",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Template-based Abstractive Microblog Opinion Summarization](https://aclanthology.org/2022.tacl-1.71/) (Bilal et al., TACL 2022)
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