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John, I. (2006). Capturing Product Line Information from Legacy User Documentation. In: Käköla, T., Duenas, J.C. (eds) Software Product Lines. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-33253-4_4

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