n-gram

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From n +‎ -gram.

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n-gram (plural n-grams)

  1. (computational linguistics) A contiguous sequence of n items (usually characters or words) from a given sequence of text or speech, used in analysis.
    • 2012, Winnie Cheng, Exploring Corpus Linguistics: Language in Action, Routledge, →ISBN:
      Hyland's study demonstrates how n-grams can reveal similarities and differences both between genres and between different sets of writers.

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