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  <Title>Finite State Transducers Approximating Hidden Markov Models</Title>
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Acknowledgements
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    <Paragraph position="0"> I wish to thank the anonymous reviewers of my paper for their valuable comments and suggestions.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> I am grateful to Lauri Karttunen and Gregory Grefenstette (both RXRC Grenoble) for extensive and frequent discussion during the period of my work, as well as to Julian Kupiec (Xerox PARC) and Mehryar Mohri (AT&amp;:T Research) for sending me some interesting ideas before I started.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Many thanks to all my colleagues at RXRC Grenoble who helped me in whatever respect, particularly to Anne Schiller, Marc Dymetman and Jean-Pierre Chanod for discussing parts of the work, and to Irene Maxwell for correcting various versions of the paper.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> ldegA large library of finite-state functions is available at Xerox.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> 11Ongoing work has shown that, looking ahead to just one tag is worthless because it makes tagging results highly ambiguous.</Paragraph>
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