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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <alllinks galcontinue="Bi-monthly-2016-10" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="597" ns="0" title="Bayesian Speaker Diarization" />
      <page pageid="8421" ns="0" title="Bi-monthly-2015-01" />
      <page pageid="8781" ns="0" title="Bi-monthly-2015-03" />
      <page pageid="8782" ns="0" title="Bi-monthly-2015-03-result" />
      <page pageid="9179" ns="0" title="Bi-monthly-2015-06" />
      <page pageid="10857" ns="0" title="Bi-monthly-2016-08" />
      <page pageid="10925" ns="0" title="Bi-monthly-2016-08-Finance Finance group" />
      <page pageid="10908" ns="0" title="Bi-monthly-2016-08-FreeNeb FreeNeb" />
      <page pageid="10903" ns="0" title="Bi-monthly-2016-08-language Language group" />
      <page pageid="10911" ns="0" title="Bi-monthly-2016-08-speech Speech group" />
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>