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The University of Auckland: Auckland, NZ

2019-04-08 to present | Professor (Computer Science)
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Michael Witbrock

The University of Auckland: Auckland, NZ

2019-04-08 to present | Professor (Computer Science)
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The University of Auckland

IBM Research: Yorktown Heights, New York, US

2016-05 to 2019-03 | Distinguished Research Staff Member (AI)
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Michael Witbrock

Education and qualifications (2)

Carnegie Mellon University: Pittsburgh, PA, US

1986 to 1995 | Ph.D. (Computer Science)
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Michael Witbrock

University of Otago: Dunedin, NZ

1980 to 1984 | BSc (Hons 1) (Psychology)
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Michael Witbrock

Funding (1)

AI-based behavioural analytics for live sports broadcast

2023-10-01 to 2026-09-30 | Grant
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (Wellington, Wellington, NZ)
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UOAX2302
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Efficient size-prescribed k-core search

2023-11-06 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3625007.3627316
Contributors: Yiping Liu; Bo Yan; Bo Zhao; Hongyi Su; Yang Chen; Michael Witbrock
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Chain of Propagation Prompting for Node Classification

2023-10-26 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3581783.3612431
Contributors: Yonghua Zhu; Zhenyun Deng; Yang Chen; Robert Amor; Michael Witbrock
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Emotion Recognition ToolKit (ERTK): Standardising Tools For Emotion Recognition Research

2023-10-26 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3581783.3613459
Contributors: Aaron Keesing; Yun Sing Koh; Vithya Yogarajan; Michael Witbrock
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SNVformer: An Attention-based Deep Neural Network for GWAS Data

2022-07-10 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2022.07.07.499217
Contributors: Kieran Elmes; Diana Benavides-Prado; Neşet Özkan Tan; Trung Bao Nguyen; Nicholas Sumpter; Megan Leask; Michael Witbrock; Alex Gavryushkin
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The effects of implementing phenomenology in a deep neural network

Heliyon
2021-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07246
Contributors: Joshua Bensemann; Michael Witbrock
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Curious cat-mobile, context-aware conversational crowdsourcing knowledge acquisition

ACM Transactions on Information Systems
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1145/3086686
EID:

2-s2.0-85028552402
Contributors: Bradeško, L.; Witbrock, M.; Starc, J.; Herga, Z.; Grobelnik, M.; Mladenić, D.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

Curious cat conversational crowd based and context aware knowledge acquisition chat bot

2016 IEEE 8th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, IS 2016 - Proceedings
2016 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/IS.2016.7737428
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2-s2.0-85005993344
Contributors: Bradesko, L.; Starc, J.; Mladenic, D.; Grobelnik, M.; WItbrock, M.
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Text Mining for the Semantic Web

2016 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-7502-7_835-1
Contributors: Marko Grobelnik; Dunja Mladenić; Michael Witbrock
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Cyc and the big c: Reading that produces and uses hypotheses about complex molecular biology mechanisms

AAAI Workshop - Technical Report
2015 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-84964692738
Contributors: Witbrock, M.; Pittman, K.; Moszkowicz, J.; Beck, A.; Schneider, D.; Lenat, D.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

Dense Models from Videos: Can YouTube be the Font of All Knowledge Bases?

2015 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1145/2671188.2749414
Contributors: Michael J. Witbrock
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Semantic construction grammar: Bridging the NL/logic divide

WWW 2015 Companion - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web
2015 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/2740908.2741710
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2-s2.0-84968690731
Contributors: Schneider, D.; Witbrock, M.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

Conversational computation

Handbook of Human Computation
2013 | Book
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8806-4_40
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2-s2.0-85028894967
Contributors: Witbrock, M.; Bradeško, L.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

Infrastructure and architecture for human computer intelligent collaboration

Handbook of Human Computation
2013 | Book
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8806-4_37
EID:

2-s2.0-85028822622
Contributors: Witbrock, M.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

SRI-Sarnoff AURORA system at TRECVID 2012: Multimedia event detection and recounting

2012 TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation Notebook Papers
2012 | Conference paper
EID:

2-s2.0-84905263424
Contributors: Cheng, H.; Liu, J.; Ali, S.; Javed, O.; Yu, Q.; Tamrakar, A.; Divakaran, A.; Sawhney, H.S.; Manmatha, R.; Allan, J. et al.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

Harnessing cyc to answer clinical researchers ad hoc queries

AI Magazine
2011 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-79953722529
Contributors: Lenat, D.; Witbrock, M.; Baxter, D.; Blackstone, E.; Deaton, C.; Schneider, D.; Scott, J.; Shepard, B.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

Knowledge for/from people for/from computers

2011 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1145/2064988.2064990
Contributors: Michael J. Witbrock
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Large knowledge collider - A service-oriented platform for large-scale semantic reasoning

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
2011 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/1988688.1988737
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2-s2.0-79960618039
Contributors: Assel, M.; Cheptsov, A.; Gallizo, G.; Celino, I.; Dell'Aglio, D.; Bradeško, L.; Witbrock, M.; Valle, E.D.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

Team SRI-Sarnoff's AURORA system @ TRECVID 2011

2011 TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation Notebook Papers
2011 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-84905251864
Contributors: Cheng, H.; Tamrakar, A.; Ali, S.; Yu, Q.; Javed, O.; Liu, J.; Divakaran, A.; Sawhney, H.S.; Hauptmann, A.; Shah, M. et al.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

Acquiring and using large scale knowledge

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, ITI
2010 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-77957200356
Contributors: Witbrock, M.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

Harnessing Cyc to Answer Clinical Researchers' Ad Hoc Queries

AI Magazine
2010-07-28 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1609/aimag.v31i3.2299
Contributors: Douglas Lenat; Michael Witbrock; David Baxter; Eugene Blackstone; Chris Deaton; Dave Schneider; Jerry Scott; Blake Shepard
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Capturing document semantics for ontology generation and document summarization

Semantic Knowledge Management: Integrating Ontology Management, Knowledge Discovery, and Human Language Technologies
2009 | Book
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-88845-1_11
EID:

2-s2.0-77957189089
Contributors: Baxter, D.; Klimt, B.; Grobelnik, M.; Schneider, D.; Witbrock, M.; Mladenić, D.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

Methods of rule acquisition in the textlearner system

AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report
2009 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-70350539493
Contributors: Curtis, J.; Baxter, D.; Wagner, P.; Cabral, J.; Schneider, D.; Witbrock, M.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

Towards LarKC: A platform for Web-scale reasoning

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing 2008, ICSC 2008
2008 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/ICSC.2008.41
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2-s2.0-52149102230
Contributors: Fensel, D.; Van Harmelen, F.; Andersson, B.; Brennan, P.; Cunningham, H.; Valle, E.D.; Fischer, F.; Huang, Z.; Kiryakov, A.; Lee, T.K.-I. et al.
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Autonomous classification of knowledge into an ontology

Proceedings of the Twentieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS 2007
2007 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-37349101968
Contributors: Taylor, M.E.; Matuszek, C.; Klimt, B.; Witbrock, M.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

Guiding inference with policy search reinforcement learning

Proceedings of the Twentieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS 2007
2007 | Conference paper
EID:

2-s2.0-37349005501
Contributors: Taylor, M.E.; Matuszek, C.; Smith, P.R.; Witbrock, M.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

An introduction to the syntax and content of Cyc

AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report
2006 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-33747187839
Contributors: Matuszek, C.; Cabrai, J.; Witbrock, M.; DeOliveira, J.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

Automated population of Cyc: Extracting information about namedentities from the web

FLAIRS 2006 - Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference
2006 | Conference paper
EID:

2-s2.0-33746072601
Contributors: Shah, P.; Schneider, D.; Matuszek, C.; Kahlert, R.C.; Aldag, B.; Baxter, D.; Cabral, J.; Witbrock, M.; Curtis, J.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

Common sense reasoning - From cyc to intelligent assistant

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
2006 | Book
DOI: 10.1007/11825890_1
EID:

2-s2.0-48949112829
Contributors: Panton, K.; Matuszek, C.; Lenat, D.; Schneider, D.; Witbrock, M.; Siegel, N.; Shepard, B.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

Tracking quantity fluctuations using STT

AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report
2006 | Conference paper
EID:

2-s2.0-33947210078
Contributors: Kahlert, R.C.; Rode, B.; Baxter, D.; Witbrock, M.; Forbus, K.; Birnbaum, L.; Shah, P.; Schneider, D.; Panton, K.; Belasco, A. et al.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

The TextLearner System: Reading Learning Comprehension

2006-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.21236/ada456798
Contributors: Jon Curtis; Michael Witbrock; David Baxter John /Cabral; Peter Wagner; Bjorn Aldag; Keith Goolsbey; Ben Gottesman; Zelal Gungordu; Robert C. Kahlert
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A knowledge-based approach to network security: Applying Cyc in the domain of network risk assessment

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
2005 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-29344474527
Contributors: Shepard, B.; Matuszek, C.; Fraser, C.B.; Wechtenhiser, W.; Crabbe, D.; Gilngördü, Z.; Jantos, J.; Hughes, T.; Lefkowitz, L.; Witbrock, M. et al.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

Analogy, Intelligent IR, and Knowledge Integration for Intelligence Analysis: Situation Tracking and the Whodunit problem

2005 | Other
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Contributors: Larry Birnbaum; Kenneth D. Forbus; Earl Wagner; James Baker; Michael Witbrock
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Michael Witbrock via BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

Converting semantic meta-knowledge into inductive bias

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
2005 | Conference paper
EID:

2-s2.0-26944489238
Contributors: Cabral, J.; Kahlert, R.C.; Matuszek, C.; Witbrock, M.; Summers, B.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

Converting Semantic Meta-knowledge into Inductive Bias

Lecture Notes in Computer Science
2005 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1007/11536314_3
Contributors: John Cabral; Robert C. Kahlert; Cynthia Matuszek; Michael Witbrock; Brett Summers
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Hypothesis Generation and Evidence Assembly for Intelligence Analysis: Cycorp’s Noöscape Application

2005 | Other
SOURCE-WORK-ID: BASE:4752dc3cad72cbfdab5141b5676c19cd0cc2bcf2f1afdb1b205194146b941b50
Contributors: Nick Siegel; Blake Shepard; John Cabral; Michael Witbrock
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Knowledge begets knowledge: Steps towards assisted knowledge acquisition in Cyc

AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report
2005 | Conference paper
EID:

2-s2.0-32944465679
Contributors: Witbrock, M.; Matuszek, C.; Brusseau, A.; Kahlert, R.; Fraser, C.B.; Lenat, D.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

Searching for common sense: Populating Cyc™ from the web

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
2005 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-29344437854
Contributors: Matuszek, C.; Witbrock, M.; Kahlert, R.C.; Cabral, J.; Schneider, D.; Shall, P.; Lenat, D.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

Applying Cyc: Using the knowledge-based data monitor to track tests and defects

AAAI Workshop - Technical Report
2004 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-32144443676
Contributors: Siegel, N.; Matthews, G.; Masters, J.; Kahlert, R.; Witbrock, M.; Pittman, K.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

Automated OWL annotation assisted by a large knowledge base

CEUR Workshop Proceedings
2004 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-84883648491
Contributors: Witbrock, M.; Panton, K.; Reed, S.L.; Schneider, D.; Aldag, B.; Reimers, M.; Bertolo, S.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

Inferring parts of speech for lexical mappings via the cyc kb

2004 | Other
SOURCE-WORK-ID: BASE:47195c80ab11c40261d99dfbb117b222cbe9c97499ed13904d18c9464037876d
Contributors: Stefano Bertolo; Michael Witbrock; Bjørn Aldag; Jon Curtis; Withkathy Panton; Dave Schneider; Nancy Salay
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Michael Witbrock via BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

Inferring parts of speech for lexical mappings via the Cyc KB

2004 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.3115/1220355.1220546
Contributors: Tom O'Hara; Stefano Bertolo; Michael Witbrock; Bjørn Aldag; Jon Curtis; Kathy Panton; Dave Schneider; Nancy Salay
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Project halo towards a Digital Aristotle

AI Magazine
2004 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-19944426615
Contributors: Friedland, N.S.; Allen, P.G.; Matthews, G.; Witbrock, M.; Baxter, D.; Curtis, J.; Shepard, B.; Miraglia, P.; Angele, J.; Staab, S. et al.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

Inducing criteria for lexicalization parts of speech using the Cyc KB

IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
2003 | Conference paper
EID:

2-s2.0-84880766016
Contributors: O'Hara, T.; Witbrock, M.; Aldag, B.; Bertolo, S.; Salay, N.; Curtis, J.; Panton, K.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

Inducing criteria for lexicalization parts of speech using the Cyc KB, and its extension to WordNet

2003 | Other
SOURCE-WORK-ID: BASE:bbf95df577a8bbaa155a24f9ce66642311f1c15ee3a72b91155a441d75f41963
Contributors: Tom O'Hara; Stefano Bertolo; Bjørn Aldag; Nancy Salay; Computer Science; Department Jon Curtis; Michael Witbrock; Kathy Panton
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Language Modeling Experiments in Non-Extractive Summarization

2003 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-0171-6_10
Contributors: Vibhu O. Mittal; Michael J. Witbrock
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Headline generation based on statistical translation

2000 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.3115/1075218.1075259
Contributors: Michele Banko; Vibhu O. Mittal; Michael J. Witbrock
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Improving the suitability of imperfect transcriptions for information retrieval from spoken documents

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
1999 | Conference paper
EID:

2-s2.0-0032649342
Contributors: Siegler, Matthew; Witbrock, Michael
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Ultra-summarization: A statistical approach to generating highly condensed non-extractive summaries

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1999
1999 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/312624.312748
EID:

2-s2.0-84974729106
Contributors: Witbrock, M.J.; Mittal, V.O.
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Michael Witbrock via Scopus - Elsevier

Speech recognition for a digital video library

Computer Standards & Interfaces
1999-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/s0920-5489(99)90925-x
Contributors: Michael J. Witbrock; Alexander G. Hauptmann
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Improving Acoustic Models By Watching Television

1998 | Other
SOURCE-WORK-ID: BASE:79d0995bfc391f27d2a6f6ca51cd0d89673284cd12a48ae177ed6df6e262fe61
Contributors: Michael Witbrock; Er G. Hauptmann
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