| Challenge: | a finite-state approach to morphological analysis and generation of Gagauz is used . the model has a reasonable coverage over a range of freely-available corpora . |
| Approach: | They propose a finite-state approach to morphological analysis and generation of Gagauz . they explicitly handle orthographic errors and variance, in addition to loan words . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach has a reasonable coverage over a range of freely-available corpora. |
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