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> Dear Marco Antonio: So aren't you going to tell the rest of us? Yours, kvt
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> On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Marco Antonio Da Rocha wrote:
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> > Thanks to all who have answered my query on the meaning of FSM. I had more
> > trouble with the abbreviation than with the concept, although I should have
> > been able to infer from the message.
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> > Marco Rocha
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I DO apologise. I thought I was the only person who did not know it.
A measure of consolation.
Ignorance has been defeated though. FSM means finite state machine, the most
simple computing device or automaton. A full description may be found in
Gazdar & Mellish, Natural Language Processing in PROLOG/LISP/PoPLog.
Marco Rocha