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<Paper uid="W98-1007">
  <Title>Arabic Morphology Using Only Finite-State Operations</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Finite-state morphology has been successful in the description and computational implementation of a wide variety of natural languages. However, the particular challenges of Arabic, and the limitations of some implementations of finite-state morphology, have led many researchers to believe that finite-state power was not sufficient to handle Arabic and other Semitic morphology. This paper illustrates how the morphotactics and the variation rules of Arabic have been described using only finite-state operations and how this approach has been implemented in a significant morphological analyzer/generator.</Paragraph>
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