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ComputingComputer ScienceComputational LinguisticsDatabasesNatural Language ProcessingAutomata TheoryFinite AutomataFinite-state MachinesInformation ExtractionLexical AnalysisSyntactic AnalysisFinite Automata TheoryFree-text MiningNondeterministic Finite Automata
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 (Japanese is under development), for entry into a database, and potentially for other applications. It works essentially as a set of cascaded, nondeterministic finite state automata.
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