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<Paper uid="W99-0626">
  <Title>Automatic Construction of Weighted String Similarity Measures</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> String similarity metrics are used for several purposes in text-processing. One task is the extraction of cognates from bilingual text. In this paper three approaches to the automatic generation of language dependent string matching functions are presented.</Paragraph>
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