Head/Modifier Frames for Information Retrieval

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.

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