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of the Special Session on Natural Language Process-
ing in Artificial Intelligence at the 10th International
Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence in
Funchal, Madeira. We would like to express our grat-
itude to our colleagues Linnea
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Oberg, Karin Koltay,
Rima Haddad, and Josefin Lindgren for their com-
ments and support. We also appreciate the construc-
tive comments from the anonymous referees. We are
fully responsible for any remaining errors.
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