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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
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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
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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.
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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”.
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- Use the GROUP command to group records by n-gram only.
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- For each group, identify the hour in which this n-gram is used with a particularly high frequency.
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- Use the COUNT function to get the count occurrences of each n-gram.
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- Each group now corresponds to a distinct n-gram and has the count for each hour.
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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
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- Use the GROUP command to group records by n-gram and hour.
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- Call the ScoreGenerator UDF to calculate a "popularity" score for the n-gram.
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alexz commented on the word n-gram
in looking up ngram versus n-gram, the n-gram is more frequent. http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=ngram%2Cn-gram&year_start=1800&year_end=2014&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=
even googlefight agrees. http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=ngram&word2=n-gram
I think ngram is gaining in usage due to Google.
more info about this n-gram thing:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram
September 6, 2013