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About Reformulation in Full-Text IRS.

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Debili, Fathi; And Others – Information Processing and Management, 1989

Analyzes different kinds of reformulations used in information retrieval systems where full text databases are accessed through natural language queries. Tests of these reformulations on large full text databases managed by the Syntactic and Probabilistic Indexing and Retrieval of Information in Texts (SPIRIT) system are described, and an expert…

Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Expert Systems, Full Text Databases, Information Retrieval

Syntactic Variation and Change in Progress: Loss of the Verbal Coda in Topic-Restricting as Far as Constructions.

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Rickford, John.; And Others – Language, 1995

This article examines the variable absence of the verb in "as far as" constructions, which serve as qualifiers or topic restrictors in English. (46 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis