(everyone has to read this)
(mandatory if you choose this as your expertise topic)
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Toda, Hiroyuki, and Ryoji Kataoka. “A search result clustering method using informatively named entities.” Proceedings of the 7th annual ACM international workshop on Web information and data management. ACM, 2005. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.90.4226&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Li, Junyi Jessy, Kapil Thadani, and Amanda Stent. “The role of discourse units in near-extractive summarization.” Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. 2016. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W16-3617
Ferrucci, David, et al. “Watson: beyond jeopardy!.” Artificial Intelligence 199 (2013): 93-105. http://scalar.usc.edu/works/meet-my-friend-watson-1/media/Beyond%20Jeopardy.pdf