n-gramn.
/ˈɛnɡram/, U.S. /ˈɛnˌɡræm/ Chiefly Linguistics and Computing.
A sequence of n letters or characters (where n is a variable: see N n. 6a, 6b), esp. one occurring within a longer sequence such as a passage of text.The paper cited in quot. 1963 has not been traced.
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structuring1890
over-differentiation1921
hypostasis1933
contextualization1934
scatter1934
opposition1936
minimality1953
mapping1955
biuniqueness1959
linearity1959
n-gram1963
meta-condition1972
optionality1972
1963 Science 21 June 1311 See R. Seibel, ‘N-gram (sequences of letters N long) analysis of English for N from 1 through 12,’ Eastern Psychol. Assoc. Mtg., April 1962.
1973 Developmental Psychol. 9 266/1 Alphabetic and rank-order listings of the ngrams, of the same length, without the words in which they appear were also produced... Thus the ngram tion is the most frequently occurring tetragram.
1988 APC June 191 (caption) An n-gram vector is a list of the n-grams in a text document... By comparing the n-gram vector of a query to those of stored documents, you can find documents likely to contain what you're looking for.
1996 C. H. Wu et al. in L. Hunter & T. E. Klein Pacific Symp. Biocomputing '96 677 A new n-gram term weighting method is used to extract conserved family information from motif sequences by multiplying each n-gram term with its weight factor.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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