Import Bridge collections into Lightroom

I have a number of collections in Bridge CS6 and I want to move these into Lightroom 5/CC. Is there any way to import them or do I have to manually recreate them?
many thanks
Nick

Moving the discussion to Photoshop Lightroom.
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Atul Saini

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