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w-shingling

w-shingling noun: in natural language processing, a set of unique "shingles" (contiguous subsequences of tokens in a document) that can be used to gauge the similarity of documents.

Noun

w-shingling (plural w-shinglings)

  1. In natural language processing, a set of unique "shingles" (contiguous subsequences of tokens in a document) that can be used to gauge the similarity of documents.

Forms of w-shingling

pluralw-shinglings

Origin of w-shingling

w denotes the number of tokens in each shingle in the set.

Questions about w-shingling

What does w-shingling mean?
W-shingling means in natural language processing, a set of unique "shingles" (contiguous subsequences of tokens in a document) that can be used to gauge the similarity of documents.
What part of speech is w-shingling?
W-shingling is a noun.
What is the plural of w-shingling?
The plural of w-shingling is w-shinglings.

Words near w-shingling in the dictionary

  1. w-buffers
  2. W-League
  3. W-shaped
  4. W-shaped recession
  5. W-shaped recovery
  6. w-shingling
  7. w-shinglings
  8. W-sitting
  9. w-w
  10. w-word
  11. w-words

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