a construction that functions syntactically as a noun, consisting of a noun and any modifiers, as all the men in the room who are reading books, or of a noun substitute, as a pronoun.
Origin
1950-55
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The algorithm first identifies noun phrases in the input text and then maps to concepts within each noun phrase.
British Dictionary definitions for noun phrase
noun phrase
noun
1.
(grammar) a constituent of a sentence that consists of a noun and any modifiers it may have a noun clause, or a word, such as a pronoun, that takes the place of a noun NP