Is There a Source Problem?

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There's a paper by some researchers at google laying out a research programme for how to do this. And one of them was the sort of source problem. You want to avoid separating the information from its source, rather than trying to stick sources back on to information. But if it is now just chewing up the information and givin you that output and then generating some url to some other page... i don't understand how this algorithm works right? Right? Because i i understand, as a researcher, ow wicipedia works. Absolutely.

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