trigram

Definitions

  • WordNet 3.6
    • n trigram a word that is written with three letters in an alphabetic writing system
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
    • n Trigram Same as Trigraph.
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
    • n trigram A geometrical form consisting of three elements, like a triangle, a triskele, a heart, etc.
    • n trigram In geometry, three coplanar, non-copunctal straights.
    • n trigram Same as trigraph.
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
    • n Trigram trī′gram same as Trigraph
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Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Pref. tri-, + -gram,
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Gr. tri, tris, thrice, gramma, a letter.

Usage


In science:

In practice, 20K and 60K high frequency words were used independently to produce wordbased trigram models.
Building a Test Collection for Speech-Driven Web Retrieval
Trigrams whose frequency was above the threshold were used for language modeling.
Building a Test Collection for Speech-Driven Web Retrieval
Julius performs a twopass (forward-backward) search using word-based forward bigrams and backward trigrams.
Building a Test Collection for Speech-Driven Web Retrieval
The language model is a wordbased trigram model produced from 60,000 high frequency words in 10 years of Mainichi Shimbun newspaper articles.
Building a Test Collection for Speech-Driven Web Retrieval
We also produced word-based trigram language models using approximately 10M documents in the 100GB collection used for the main task.
Building a Test Collection for Speech-Driven Web Retrieval
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