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author = "Weischedel, Ralph and
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pages = "651--658",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Last Words: What Can Be Accomplished with the State of the Art in Information Extraction? A Personal View](https://aclanthology.org/J18-4004) (Weischedel & Boschee, CL 2018)
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