Syntactic Phrase

A Syntactic Phrase is a string of terminals that are a syntactic unit (within a sentence that abides to some grammar).

• Context:
  • It can have Phrasal Meaning.
• Example(s):
  • a Natural Language Phrase/Linguistic Phrase, such as a noun phrase.
  • a Computer Program Phrase, such as the For Loop Definition.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Named Entity Mention, a string of terminals that may not necessarily be a syntactic unit.
• See: Formal Grammar.

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References

• http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22A+Syntactic+Phrase+is%22
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrase_(disambiguation)

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