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  <Title>A Finite-State Model of Georgian Verbal Morphology</Title>
  <Section position="5" start_page="47" end_page="47" type="evalu">
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4 Evaluation and Future Work
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    <Paragraph position="0"> At the initial stages of modeling, we have concentrated on regular transitive verbs and frequent irregular verbs. The model currently contains several verbs from each of the 17 transitive verb classes mentioned in (Melikishvili 2001), and a growing number of frequent irregular verbs from different conjugation classes. Regular unaccusative, unergative, and indirect verbs will be added in the near future, with the goal of providing full inflections for 200 most frequent Georgian verbs.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The model serves as the basis for an online learner's reference for Georgian conjugations (Gurevich 2005), which is the only such reference currently available.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> A drawback of most finite-state models is their inability to generalize to novel items the way a human could. However, the output of our finite-state model could potentially be used to generate training sets for connectionist or statistical models.</Paragraph>
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