Lexical Pattern

A Lexical Pattern is a String Pattern that is based on Surface Words.

• AKA: Lexical String Pattern, Simple String Pattern.
• Context:
  • It can be:
    • a Word Vector.
    • a Word Sequence.
• Example(s):
  • a Hearst Pattern such as “X such as Y”
  • the sequence of Alphabetic Characters "car" in any context, such as "car", "cartoon", or "bicarbonate"
  • the word "car" when it appears as an isolated word (with a space character before and after).
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • any Regular String Expression.
  • any Syntactic Pattern, if the string is based on a Formal Grammar.
  • any Lexico-Syntactic Pattern, if the string is based on a Formal Grammar.
• See: Syntactic Pattern, Lexico-Syntactic Pattern.

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