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  <Title>Saussurian analogy: a theoretical account and its application</Title>
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5 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have proposed a possible theoretical explanation of analogy in terms of edit distances. As expected, this proposal renders an account of some important linguistic phenomena, in particular, prefixing, suffixing and infixing. Also, transitivity is verified by linguistic examples. Nevertheless, the exact mathematical properties, and especially, the necessary and sufficient conditions on strings under which the above mentioned properties hold remain for the large part to be studied.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> A possible application is anMysis and generation by analogy. The proposed technique falls under the example-based approaches to natural language processing, hut we think it may be safer than previous methods, because it relies on more information, and linguistically founded information. We have built a first implementation, which shows to be of great utility in accelerating the construction of tree-banks and improving their consistency. null</Paragraph>
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