preprocessing

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Verb

preprocessing

  1. present participle and gerund of preprocess

Noun

preprocessing (countable and uncountable, plural preprocessings)

  1. The act of processing beforehand.
    • 2002, Sing-Tze Bow, editor, Pattern Recognition and Image Preprocessing, Marcel Dekker, Inc., →ISBN:
      In pattern recognition we can divide an entire task into three phases: data acquisition, data preprocessing, and decision classification.
    • 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 108:
      Despite extensive data cleaning and preprocessing, it was not possible to completely eliminate all noise in such a large corpus.
  2. The material formed by a preprocess.

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