Definition, Meaning & Synonyms
trigram
Noun
/ˈtraɪˌɡræm/
Definition
A trigram is a group of three consecutive items, typically letters or words, used in linguistic and data analysis.
Examples
- The phrase ‘natural language processing’ can be broken down into trigrams like ‘natural language processing’.
- Trigrams are used in text analysis to improve the accuracy of predictive text applications.
- Analyzing trigrams can help in understanding patterns in large datasets.
Meaning
In natural language processing, trigrams are used to predict the next item in a sequence based on its preceding two items.
Synonyms
- Three-gram
- Triad
- Triplet
