@techreport{TR-DCC-92-01, number = {DCC-92-01}, author = {Lucchesi, Cláudio L. and Kowaltowski, Tomasz}, title = {Applications of Finite Automata Representing Large Vocabularies}, month = {January}, year = {1992}, institution = {Department of Computer Science, University of Campinas}, note = {In English, 25 pages. \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract} The construction of minimal acyclic deterministic partial finite automata to represent large natural language vocabularies is described. Applications of such automata include: spelling checkers and advisers, multilanguage dictionaries, thesauri, minimal perfect hashing and text compression. } }