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  <Title>Sentences vs. Phrases: Syntactic Complexity in Multimedia Information Retrieval</Title>
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5 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Our experiments indicate that, in an information retrieval system tuned to recognize and reward matches using syntactic information, syntactic complexity yields better results than syntactically  mixed-up &amp;quot;word salad.&amp;quot; One can interpret these results from a semantic complexity standpoint, since the syntactically simple captions all include considerably more semantic ambiguity, unconstrained as they are from a syntactic standpoint. This observation leads us to an additional conclusion about the relationship between syntactic and semantic complexity: in this instance, at least, the relationship is inverse rather than direct. The word-list captions are syntactically simple but, as a result, since syntactic factors are not available to limit ambiguity, semantically more complex than the same information presented in a more syntactically complex fashion, i.e. in sentences.</Paragraph>
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