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In [[automata theory]], a '''Threadthread automataautomaton''' (plural: automata) is a [[finite-state machine|finite-state automaton]] that can make use of a thread.<ref name="eric"> {{cite journal | last = de la Clergerie | first = Éric Villemonte | year = 2002 | title = Parsing mildly context-sensitive languages with thread automata | journal = COLING '02 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computational linguistics | volume = 1 | issue = 3 | pages = 1-7 | issn = | url = http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1080000/1072256/p28-villemonte_de_la_clergerie.pdf?acc=OPEN | doi = 10.3115/1072228.1072256 }} </ref> Thread automata isare capable of recognizing ana [[Mildlymildly context-sensitive language]].
