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  <Title>ON THE AUTOMATIC TRANSFORMATION OF CLASS MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA</Title>
  <Section position="5" start_page="46" end_page="47" type="concl">
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5. CONCLUSIONS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The capability for the intelligent handling of inexact matches ham been shown to be an important requirement for the representation of certain classification +.asks.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> A procedure has been outlined ~nereby a set of criteria for membership in a particular class may be transformed into an exemplary instance of a member of that class.</Paragraph>
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    <Paragraph position="3"> As we have seen, use of that exemplary instance during the matchinK process appears to permit important functions associated with inexact matchlnK to be easily performed, and also to have a bene/icial affect on the overall effiolency 0~' the matahinK process.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> The author is gratet%ll to the followin8 for cos-Mints and suKgestions on the work reported on in this paper: S. Amarel, V. Cissielski, L. T. MoCarty, T. Mitchell, N. S. Sridha~an, and D. Touretzky.</Paragraph>
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