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evaluation of similarity or finding the most similar compositional items allowed by such representations
are extremely useful for solution of a wide range of AI problems.

Acknowledgements: The authors are grateful to Pentti Kanerva and Tony Plate for their extensive and
helpful comments, valuable suggestions, and continuous support. This work was funded in part by the
International Science Foundation Grants U4M000 and U4M200.

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