Everything about Information structure
Way in which information is formally packaged within a sentence
In linguistics, information structure, also called information packaging, describes the way in which information is formally packaged within a sentence. This generally includes only those aspects of information that "respond to the temporary state of the addressee's mind", and excludes other aspects of linguistic information such as references to background (encyclopedic/common) knowledge, choice of style, politeness, and so forth. For example, the difference between an active clause and a corresponding passive is a syntactic difference, but one motivated by information structuring considerations. Other choices motivated by information structure include preposing and inversion. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Information structureA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Structured information extraction from scientific text with large language modelsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Vector Mechanics for Engineers, Statics & DynamicsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Robust uncertainty principles: exact signal reconstruction from highly incomplete frequency informationCited 12,734 times
- Go sideways: Focus (linguistics)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Topic and commentA closely related topic
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Robust uncertainty principles: exact signal reconstruction from highly incomplete frequency information
Information Technology and Organizational Structure
Conceptual structure, information search, and information utilization.
Information processing and organizational structure
Algorithmic information structure design
Information ratings and capital structure
Discourse and Information Structure
Information Structure and Syntactic Structure
🆕 Influential since 2022
Structured information extraction from scientific text with large language models
Graph Structure Learning with Variational Information Bottleneck
Information disclosure with endogenous channel structure
Influential node identification by aggregating local structure information
RHINE: Relation Structure-Aware Heterogeneous Information Network Embedding
📚 Books worth reading
Vector Mechanics for Engineers, Statics & DynamicsFerdinand Pierre Beer, E. Russell Johnston, Jr. · 1962
Computer Engineering and TechnologyWeixia Xu · 2013
Data miningJiawei Han, Micheline Kamber · 2000
Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based SystemsJoao Paulo Carvalho, Marie-Jeanne Lesot · 2016
Structural linguistics and human communicationBertil Malmberg · 1963- 📕Conceptual structures in practicePascal Hitzler · 2008
Information retrievalDavid A. Grossman, Ophir Frieder · 1998
Beautiful dataJeff Hammerbacher, Toby Segaran · 2009
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