Definitions

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  • noun a word that is written with two letters in an alphabetic writing system.

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  • noun linguistics a pair, often of words or tags, used in analysis.

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  • noun a word that is written with two letters in an alphabetic writing system

Etymologies

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bi- + -gram

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Examples

  • For instance, “New York” represents two words that go together in other words, a bigram.

    In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

  • For instance, “New York” represents two words that go together in other words, a bigram.

    In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

  • The key to understanding a query like this, Singhal said, was the black art of “bigram breakage”: that is, how should a search engine parse a series of words entered into the query field, making the kind of distinctions that a smart human being would make?

    In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

  • The key to understanding a query like this, Singhal said, was the black art of “bigram breakage”: that is, how should a search engine parse a series of words entered into the query field, making the kind of distinctions that a smart human being would make?

    In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

  • What was priceless and really did shorten the war and was the key to winning the Battle of the Atlantic, were the complete bigram tables for the naval Enigma.

    BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » A Father’s Secret 2010

  • I removed everything that referenced “atNote” bigram things and the line “import Safe”.

    Vocable bugfix « Alex McLean 2007

  • For instance, the Armenian small ligature men now (U+FB13) is case folded to the bigram men now (U+0574 U+0576), while the micro sign (U+00B5) is case folded to the Greek small letter letter mu (U+03BC) instead of itself.

    Planet Haskell 2009

  • If converting to lower case, the Latin capital letter I with dot above (U+0130) maps to the bigram "Latin small letter i" followed by "combining dot above" (U+0069 U+0307).

    Planet Haskell 2009

  • With a bigram model, for example, the probability P

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows tizyweb 2009

  • Thus for a trigram grammar, the format of each N-gram is the following: N-gram Format unigram log P ∗ (wk) wk log α (wk) bigram log P ∗ (wk

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows tizyweb 2009

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  • in keyboard design, it's the combination of 2 keys.

    When you're designing a new keyboard layout, you would aim to minimize repetitive finger usage, so you would wvoid having bigrams on the same finger.

    lookup - "most popular bigram"

    May 18, 2016