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nounsubphrase (plural subphrases)
plural subphrases
- A phrase making up part of a larger phrase.
Unsupervised methods for identifying "phrases", mining subphrase structure and finding words in a fully automated way are described.
2016, Stefan Gerdjikov, Klaus U. Schulz, “Corpus analysis without prior linguistic knowledge - unsupervised mining of phrases and subphrase structure”, in arXiv
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APA
subphrase. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subphrase
MLA
“subphrase.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subphrase. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “subphrase,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subphrase.
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