Ellipsis
Omission of words or abbreviated
language. This phenomenon has in particular importance by
full text searching.
Literature:
Johnson, F. C. (1994). A Classification of ellipsis based on a corpus of information-seeking dialogs. Information Processing & Management, 30(3), 315-325.
Pirkola, A. & Järvelin, K. (1996). The Effect of Anaphor and Ellipsis Resolution on Proximity Searching in a Text Database. Information Processing and Management, 32(2), 199-216.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (2006). Ellipsis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis
See also: Anaphora; Natural Language Processing;
Birger Hjørland
Last edited: 16-05-2006