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  <Title>FASTUS: A System for Extracting Information from Text*</Title>
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INTRODUCTION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> FAS'rUS is a (slightly permuted) acronym for Finite State Automaton Text Understanding System. It is a.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> system \[br extracting information fi'om free text in English (Japanese is under development), for entry into a database, and potentially for other apl)lications. It works essentially as a set of cascaded, nondeterministic finite state automata.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> FASTUS is rnost appropriate for inform.ation e~:lraclion tasks, rather than fldl text understanding. That is, it. is most effective for text-scanning tasks where</Paragraph>
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