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  1. Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha, Qatar

    Wei Gao

  2. Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China

    Cheng Niu

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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    Zheng Chen

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Gao, W., Niu, C. (2018). Cross-Language Mining and Retrieval. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_89

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