What does “n-gram” mean?
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Oh okay, this is a techy one — but it's actually pretty simple once you see it!
An "n-gram" is a sequence of "n" items taken from a longer piece of text or speech. The "n" just means a number — like 1, 2, or 3.
So imagine the sentence "I love cats." A 1-gram (or "unigram") is just one word at a time: "I", "love", "cats." A 2-gram (or "bigram") is two words together: "I love", "love cats." A 3-gram is three: "I love cats." You're basically sliding a little window across the text and grabbing chunks.
People use n-grams a lot in language apps, search engines, and AI — to help a computer understand patterns in how words appear together.
So basically: an n-gram is a chunk of text with a specific number of words or letters in it.
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