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  <Title>MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSING IN THE NABU SYSTEM</Title>
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INTRODUCTION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Nabu is a multilingual Natural Language Processing system under development in the Human Interface Laboratory at MCC, for shareholder companies. Its morphological component is designed to perform a number of different functions. This has been used to produce a complete analyzer for Arabic; very substantial analyzers for English, French, German, and Spanish; and small collections of rules for Russian and Japanese. In addition, other functions have been implemented for several of these languages. null In this paper we discuss our philosophy, which constrained our design decisions; elaborate some specific functions a morphological component should support; survey some competing approaches; describe our technique, which provides the necessary functionality while meeting the other design constraints; and support our approach by characterizing our success in developing/testing processors for various combinations of language and function.</Paragraph>
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