An updated version of a minor thesis template that we have been using at the RMIT School of Computing Technologies. https://learninglab.rmit.edu.au/sites/default/files/Minor_thesis_and%20research_report._structure_2015_Accessible.pdf
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pdftitle={Query Variants and LLM-Based Retrieval Enhancement},
pdfauthor={Kun Ran, Marwah Alaofi, Damiano Spina, Mark Sanderson},
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