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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The CLASSLA Knowledge centre for South Slavic languages (</span><a
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style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">helpdesk.classla@clarin.si</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with any ideas for improvements. You are also invited to read our blog post on the use of CLASSLA web corpora via the open CLARIN.SI concordancers: </span><a
href="https://www.clarin.si/info/k-centre/classla-web-bigger-and-better-web-corpora-for-croatian-serbian-and-slovenian-on-clarin-si-concordancers/"
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial">Taja Kuzman, Nikola Ljubešić and
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