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  <Title>Controlling the application of lexical rules</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, we describe an item-familiarity account of the semi-productivity of morphological and lexical rules, and illustrate how it can be applied to practical issues which arise when building large scale lexical knowledge bases which utilize lexical rules. Our approach assumes that attested uses of derived words and senses are explicitly recorded, but that productive use of lexical rules is also possible, though controlled by probabilities associated with rule application. We discuss how the necessary probabilities and estimates of lexical rule productivity may be acquired from corpora.</Paragraph>
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