W-shingling

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    In natural language processing, a set of unique "shingles" (contiguous subsequences of tokens in a document) that can be used to gauge the similarity of documents.

Etymology

w denotes the number of tokens in each shingle in the set.

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