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SRI International: description of the FASTUS system used for MUC-4

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MUC4 '92: Proceedings of the 4th conference on Message understanding

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https://doi.org/10.3115/1072064.1072103

Published: 16 June 1992 Publication History

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FASTUS is a (slightly permuted) acronym for Finite State Automaton Text Understanding System. It is a system for extracting information from free text in English, and potentially other languages as well, for entry into a database, and potentially for other applications. It works essentially as a cascaded, nondeterministic finite state automaton.

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Pereira, Fernando, 1990. "Finite-State Approximations of Grammars", Proceedings, DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop, Hidden Valley, Pennsylvania, pp. 20--25.

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