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“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”—Winston Churchill

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    DARPA stands for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is an agency of the United States Department of Defense. It is responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military, and often funds academic research efforts.

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Aggarwal, C.C. (2018). Text Segmentation and Event Detection. In: Machine Learning for Text. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73531-3_14

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