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  <Title>Distributing and Porting General Linguistic Tools</Title>
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5. Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have used the portability frame presented in this paper for the main tools of our system: a morphological parser and a morphological generator, which use a root and endings lexicon to parse or generate about 250 000 French forms. The lexicon must be uncompiled and compiled back when porting from Mac to PC but the whole process does not take more than a dozen minutes. On the contrary, thanks to the similarity in their architectures, the same lexicon can be used on Mac and on Unix machines.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Concerning the code, we have now portable versions of the tools mentioned above, plus a lexical desambiguer and a lexical correcter using similarity keys. We are able to deliver libraries for these tools (and their data for French) on Mac, PC and Unix.</Paragraph>
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