This page gathers the 31 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Computational”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples.
- bag of words noun The collection of words from an unprocessed text without regard to grammar; a collection of word unigrams.
- cache language model noun A type of statistical language model that assigns probabilities to word sequences based on a probability distribution.
- chunker noun A software tool for dividing text into chunks.
- co-occurrence network noun A text analysis method that visually represents relationships among entities based on their co-occurrence in electronic text.
- collocation extraction noun The automated process of identifying and extracting word combinations that frequently appear together in a given corpus.
- computational humor noun A field within computational linguistics and artificial intelligence that leverages computers for research on humor.
- computational semantics noun The study of automating the creation and interpretation of meaning representations in natural language expressions.
- concordance noun A listing, usually tokenized, where every word or phrase in a corpus can be found alongside its immediate context in each usage.
- coreset noun A small set of points that approximates the shape of a larger point set, in the sense that applying some geometric measure to the two sets…
- distributional semantics noun A field of research focused on quantifying and categorizing the semantic similarities between linguistic items.
- distributional–relational database noun A type of database management system that enhances the semantics of structured data by using distributional word-vector representations.
- epsilon-machine noun A deterministic automaton consisting of a system of causal states and the transitions between them, functioning as the smallest possible…
- foundation model noun An AI model trained on comprehensive data, enabling its application across various use cases such as chatbots and generative AI.
- grammar induction noun The process of constructing a model that captures the characteristics of observed objects by learning a formal grammar.
- inside–outside–beginning noun A tagging scheme commonly employed in tasks such as named-entity recognition within computational linguistics.
- interlingual machine translation noun A classic method where the source language is converted into an abstract, language-independent representation called interlingua.
- keyness noun The statistical significance of a keyword's frequency in a given corpus, relative to a reference corpus.
- lexical resource noun A linguistic asset comprising information about the words and their meanings within one or more languages.
- lexical simplification noun A subtask of text simplification that swaps words or phrases in a text to make it simpler and easier to understand, reducing its complexity.
- lexical substitution noun The task of replacing a word with another word while maintaining the meaning and context of the original sentence or phrase.
- logic form noun The representation of natural language sentences in first-order logic, where concept predicates are combined through shared arguments.
- morphological dictionary noun A resource that documents the relationship between surface forms and their corresponding lexical forms.
- n-gram noun A contiguous sequence of n items (usually characters or words) from a given sequence of text or speech, used in analysis.
- node noun The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
- rejection sampling noun A technique used to generate observations from a distribution by repeatedly sampling an approximation function that bounds the distribution…
- sentiment analysis noun The use of computers to process natural language in an attempt to identify and extract information about the writer's affective state.
- shingle noun A word-based n-gram.
- statistical semantics noun The study of estimation of the meanings of words by looking at patterns of words in huge collections of texts, using statistical methods.
- string substitution noun A mapping of letters to sets of strings, which creates a closed operation for regular and context-free languages.
- treebank noun A database (corpus) of sentences which are annotated with syntactic information, often in the form of a tree.
- trigram noun An n-gram consisting of three items from a sequence.