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  • noun linguistics a contiguous sequence of n items from a given sequence of text or speech

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Examples

  • The Google n-gram corpus has 4858 examples of “debate centers on” and 1763 of “debate centers around”, but does not have a single attestation of “debate centers at” in a trillion words.

    A debate centering around etymological and logical fallacies « Motivated Grammar 2010

  • The Google n-gram corpus has 4858 examples of “debate centers on” and 1763 of “debate centers around”, but does not have a single attestation of “debate centers at” in a trillion words.

    2010 April « Motivated Grammar 2010

  • In version 2 the most common n-gram was “work based on the program”; but for version 3 it was “the gnu general public license”.

    Perl Collocates — バカな火星人 2008

  • - Use the GROUP command to group records by n-gram only.

    Site Home Avkash Chauhan - MSFT 2012

  • - For each group, identify the hour in which this n-gram is used with a particularly high frequency.

    Site Home Avkash Chauhan - MSFT 2012

  • - Use the COUNT function to get the count occurrences of each n-gram.

    Site Home Avkash Chauhan - MSFT 2012

  • - Each group now corresponds to a distinct n-gram and has the count for each hour.

    Site Home Avkash Chauhan - MSFT 2012

  • An "n-gram" is a string of words appearing in a text, and Google's interface lets you search for combinations of up to five words in a row.

    NYT > Home Page By BEN ZIMMER 2011

  • - Use the GROUP command to group records by n-gram and hour.

    Site Home Avkash Chauhan - MSFT 2012

  • - Call the ScoreGenerator UDF to calculate a "popularity" score for the n-gram.

    Site Home Avkash Chauhan - MSFT 2012

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