[Corpora-List] Request

[saman namdar]

Dear Alon, 

Thank you for your help about my question. 

Saman Namdar,
NLP Lab (http://ece.ut.ac.ir/NLP),
ECE Department,
University of Tehran


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From: Alon Lischinsky <alischinsky at gmail.com>
To: saman namdar <samannamdar at yahoo.com>
Cc: "corpora at uib.no" <corpora at uib.no>
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Request

Hi Saman,

> Where does "grams" in "n-grams" come from?

< Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma, "letter; something written"), used
both in Classical derivations (anagram, epigram, program) and in new
coinages (telegram). The specific sense of "word consisting of N
characters" is slightly post-Classical, first attested in monogram (<
Latin monogrammum < Byzantine Greek μονόγραμμον), but productive in
English: bigram, trigram, tetragram (~=tetragrammaton), pentagram,
etc.

> How is "BP" calculated in "n-grams"?

I don't know what you mean by BP in this context

Alon
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