syntactic structure

Words that signal syntactic structure.

Choice of vocabulary and syntactic structure are also modified.

For a computer to understand how a sentence works, it basically has to iterate over all possible options of a syntactic structure between different words and then work out which is the most likely.

Various approaches to refining retrieval methods toward this end include building on a computer version of a dictionary and letting the computer look up words in it to obtain more information about the semantic structure or semantic field of a word, its grammatical structure, and syntactic structure.