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  <Title>A FEATURE-BASED MODEL FOR LEXICAL DATABASES</Title>
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4. CONCLUSION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper we show that previously applied dam models are inadequate for lexical databases. In particular, we show that relational data models, including normalized models which allow the nesting of attributes, cannot capture the structural properties of lexical information. We propose an alternative feature-based model for lexical databases, which departs from previously proposed models in significant ways. In particular, it allows for a lull representation of sense nesting and defines an inheritance mechanism that enables the elimination of redundant information. &amp;quot;\['he model provides a flexibility which seems able to handle the varying structures of different monolingual dictionaries.</Paragraph>
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