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  <Title>THE SELF-EXTENDING LEXICON: OFF-LINE AND ON-LINE DEFAULTING OF LEXICAL INFORMATION IN THE METAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM (I)</Title>
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0. INTRODUCTION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The DEFAULTER component of the METAl, MT system has been developed as a tool for extending the existing lexicons (off-line defaulting) and is the basis for a category-guessing device for unknown words (on-line de\[aulting).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> i, SOME BACKGROUND FOR THE METAL MT SYSTEM (2) I.I. METAL MONOLINGUAL DICTIONARIES METAL monolingual lexicon entries are r(~presented as feature-value structures, accessible by their citation or &amp;quot;canonical&amp;quot; form* For each canonical form, the a!lomorphic va~\[iants (spelling variants, irregular forms, etc.) are stored.</Paragraph>
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