A Weapon is No Subordinate

Less is more: Eliminating index terms from subordinate clauses

We perform a linguistic analysis of documents during indexing for information retrieval. By eliminating index terms that occur only in subordinate clauses, index size is reduced by approximately 30% without adversely affecting precision or recall. These results hold for two corpora: a sample of the world wide web and an electronic encyclopedia.

On the Relationship between Subordinate Killed and Killed Subordinate Processes

We study the precise relationship between the subordinate killed and killed subordinate processes in the case of an underlying Hunt process, and show that, under minimal conditions, the former is a subprocess of the latter obtained by killing at a terminal time. Moreover, we also show that the killed subordinate process can be obtained by resurrecting the subordinate killed one at most countabl...

Information Structure in Subordinate and Subordinate-Like Clauses

While information structure has traditionally been viewed as a single partition of information within an utterance, there are opposing views that identify multiple such partitions in an utterance. The existence of alternative proposals raises questions about the notion of information structure and also its relation to discourse structure. Exploring various linguistic aspects, this paper support...

Modal subordination is neither modal nor subordinate...discuss

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