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  <Title>A Morphographemic Model for Error Correction in Nonconcatenative Strings</Title>
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5 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The model presented corrects errors resulting from combining nonconcatenative strings as well as more standard morphological or spelling errors. It covers Semitic errors relating to vocalisation, diacritics, phonetic syncopation and morphographemic idiosyncrasies. Morphosyntactic issues of broken plurals, diminutives and deverbal nouns can be handled by a complementary correction strategy which also depends on morphological analysis.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Other than the economic factor, an important advantage of combining morphological analysis and error detection/correction is the way the lexical tree associated with the analysis can be used to determine correction possibilities. The morphological analysis proceeds by selecting rules that hypothesise lexical strings for a given surface string. The rules are accepted/rejected by checking that the lexical string(s) can extend along the lexical tree(s) from the current position(s). Variables introduced by error rules into the surface string are then instantiated by associating surface with lexical, and matching lexical strings to the lexicon tree(s). The system is unable to consider correction characters that would be lexical impossibilities.</Paragraph>
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