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  <Title>I E ! E E E I Feature Structures, Unification and Finite-State Transducers</Title>
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4 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Preliminary research in the morphological description of Arabic, Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Japanese using the Samba language supports our hypothesis that this formalism can be used for describing a variety of morphological models in a compact and declarative way. A mock-up of a Samba interpreter has been built to test various implementation choices and a complete implementation is currently under way at CRL. Future work on Samba will include the implementation of a version supporting dynamic access to dictionaries, the addition of orthographic rules, and an extension to handle composition. The Samba language is currently -used to develop a morphological analyzer for Persian and will also be used for several other languages including for example Spanish and Korean.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Acknowledgments This work is part of the Corelli project funded by the Maryland Procurement Office, Fort George G. Meade, MD under grant MDA904-96-C-1040.</Paragraph>
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