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  <Title>A UNIFIED MANAGEMENT AND PROCESSING OF WORD-FORMS, IDIOMS AND ANALYTICAL COMPOUNDS</Title>
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INTRODUCTION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> lately, a proliferation of computational lexicon environments (CLE) has been noticed, which sign i ftcantly influence the work on natural language (mainly, machine translation) (Byrd et al. 1987), (Nircnburg and Raskin 1987), (Ritchie et al. 1987) etc. With more and more computing power incorporated, the modern CLEs are capable to process not only individual inflected words or derivatives but also idioms and collocations. Nonetheless, there are many applications in language industry which consider a CLE an unfordable luxury. We believe that such an objection may be refused if the CLE is so designed that it should function in a data-driven manner.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> We have purposely developed a morpho-lexical management and processing environment aimed at providing an unified and satisfactory solution to a wide range of applications: intelligent text-processing, textual information retrieval, natural language interfacing, natural language understanding, machine translation. Also, and more important, the environment is intended to be used for a large class of natural languages (at least for those of which morphology may be described in terms of our paradigmatic model (Tufts 1989)).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> In order to reach these objectives, we made a clear distinction between the morphological pro.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> cessings and the knowledge governing them. This distinction Is beneficial not only with respect to natural language independence from the processing environment but also with respect to the d~ired degree of complexity of the process in case. The lack of information in such an approach will not block the system but will produce a simplified result.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> An interesting characteristic of our system is its capability to treat, besides idioms, analytical compounds as well as grammatical and lexical collocations. null The work reported here is developed within the context of the paradigmatic theory of morphology as defined in Tufts (1990). The terminology used in the following is taken from the above-mentioned paper. In the same paper, it is shown that learnability is the great advantage of paradigmatic morphology. The PARADIGM system, described in Tufts (1989) and Tufis (1990) allows a novice user to informally teach the program how to (de)compose inflexionai word-forms, that is to enable the morphological processing by a natural language processor.</Paragraph>
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