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  <Title>Using Genericity to Create Cutomizable Finite-State Tools</Title>
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4 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, various finite-state tools have been described which are based on a general common framework. The significance of these tools does not reside primarily in their individual functionalities. Although each of them is useful and fast, their principal interest lies in the fact that they are produced with so little effort on the basis of an existing object-oriented framework.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The framework represents an abstract finite-state element, which can be easily customized to produce new kinds of concrete finite-state tools. We think that the use of a customizable framework, as well as the use of a source database for the generation of the input, is a further step towards the optimal reuse of expensive tasks like defining some tens of thousands of entries which will usually not focus on a single application.</Paragraph>
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