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  <Title>Saussurian analogy: a theoretical account and its application</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> in tim (7ours de linguislique g&amp;~,&amp;'alc, S;d, llSSllr() l-fl(;Ilti()llS kl, p\[tellO\]ll(:\[IOll OF tremendous itnl)ortance in l+mguage, analogy. For example, giwm the series walk, walked and look, how can we (:oil, t,tl( + fourth term, looked? We give ;~ t)ossi --I)le a,(:count of this phenomenotl in t, et'tns of edition distances, thus paving the way to comptlt+d;ionM applic++tk)ns. This exl)lanal;ion a ccoutJts for prefixing, suffix.+ ing and infixing. We show how it is possible to perform the a.nMogical anal ysis and generation of sentences, using tt tree-bank ;m(l ~q)l)roxitnaLl;e l);tt, tertF ln&amp;t(;hitlg. As a, (;OllSe(ltlellce ~ our \[)roposal linds its t)lnee in I;he (~xa.tul)le-l)as(.'d approach to naturM language processing.</Paragraph>
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