Stage | Noun phrase structures | Example from this study |
2 | Attributive adjectives | wearable sensors; unique physiological characteristics |
3 | Participial premodifiers | matching accuracy; implemented system |
That relative clauses, especially with animate head nouns | a recognition system that can work under different usage scenarios | |
Nouns as premodifiers | system robustness | |
Possessive nouns | network’s capabilities | |
Of phrases | the robustness of MagView | |
Prepositions other than of | broad applications in the Internet | |
4 | Nonfinite relative clauses(-ed) | groups of items carried by a customer |
Nonfinite relative clauses(-ing) | an SLAM service running on mobile devices | |
Multiple modifiers of Attributive adjectives and nouns | an efficient computation offloading strategy | |
5 | Preposition + nonfinite complement clause | an AM station for broadcasting short messages |
Complement clauses controlled by nouns | the fact that the covert channel can be created on any computer | |
Multiple prepositional phrases, with levels of embedding | the confusion between the two concepts of scientific knowledge map in the field of library and information and Google Knowledge Graph | |
To-clauses | the right to reliable meteorological data |