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  1. Peking University, Beijing, China

    Li Zhang

  2. Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China

    Jian-Tao Sun

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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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Zhang, L., Sun, JT. (2018). Text Generation. 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_416

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