On the Application of Syntactic Methodologies in Automatic Text Analysis.

Salton, Gerard; And Others

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Publication Date: 1990

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On the Application of Syntactic Methodologies in Automatic Text Analysis.

Salton, Gerard; And Others

Information Processing and Management, v26 n1 p73-92 1990

Summarizes various linguistic approaches proposed for document analysis in information retrieval environments. Topics discussed include syntactic analysis; use of machine-readable dictionary information; knowledge base construction; the PLNLP English Grammar (PEG) system; phrase normalization; and statistical and syntactic phrase evaluation used in automatic indexing. (32 references) (LRW)

Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Computer Software, Databases, Dictionaries, Documentation, Information Retrieval, Linguistics, Phrase Structure, Syntax

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