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Head/Modifier Frames for Information Retrieval

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Abstract

We describe a principled method for representing documents by phrases abstracted into Head/Modifier pairs. First the notion of aboutness and the characterization of full-text documents by HM pairs is didcussed. Based on linguistic arguments, a taxonomy of HM pairs is derived. We briefly describe the EP4IR parser/transducer of English and present some statistics of the distribution of HM pairs in newspaper text.

Based on the HM pairs generated, a new technique to measure the accuracy of a parser is introduced, and applied to the EP4IR grammar of English. Finally we discuss the merits of HM pairs and HM trees as a document representation.

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    Cornelis H. A. Koster

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    Alexander Gelbukh

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Koster, C.H.A. (2004). Head/Modifier Frames for Information Retrieval. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2945. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24630-5_51

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