<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; ">Dear Alon, </span><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; ">Thank you for your help about my question. </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; "><div>Saman Namdar,<br>NLP Lab (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ece.ut.ac.ir/NLP" style="color: rgb(35, 71, 134); outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; ">http://ece.ut.ac.ir/NLP</a>),<br>ECE Department,<br>University of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321109359_1">Tehran</span></div></div></span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica,
sans-serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Alon Lischinsky <alischinsky@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> saman namdar <samannamdar@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "corpora@uib.no" <corpora@uib.no><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, November 11, 2011 1:32 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Corpora-List] Request<br></font><br>
Hi Saman,<br><br>> Where does "grams" in "n-grams" come from?<br><br>< Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma, "letter; something written"), used<br>both in Classical derivations (anagram, epigram, program) and in new<br>coinages (telegram). The specific sense of "word consisting of N<br>characters" is slightly post-Classical, first attested in monogram (<<br>Latin monogrammum < Byzantine Greek μονόγραμμον), but productive in<br>English: bigram, trigram, tetragram (~=tetragrammaton), pentagram,<br>etc.<br><br>> How is "BP" calculated in "n-grams"?<br><br>I don't know what you mean by BP in this context<br><br>Alon<br><br><br></div></div></div></body></html>