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  <Title>Tools for locating noun phrases with finite state transducers.</Title>
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6 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The simplicity with which we created the O.~cer automaton is not based on new theoretical algorithms or formalism. It is totally based on useful tools elaborated at LADL. I have built for French a database of large coverage for proper nouns and occupations. This database includes more than 200 kinds of different main automata, proper noun dictionaries of towns, surnames, each with several thousand entries. This is a practical result, and I think that this is the case of almost all linguistic phenomena. We can describe them theoretically, but in practice the number of the different cases, and the links between them make impossible to list them without appropriate tools. The bootstrap method we present is a very general methodology, that make use of the text in an efficient way, to construct a local grammar.</Paragraph>
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