Re: Corpora: Bigram, Trigram and ???gram if N=4 ???

Stefan Momma (steff@IMS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE)
Tue, 22 Jul 1997 19:20:18 +0200 (MET DST)

'Jing-Shin Chang' wrote:
>
>
> This might be a stupid question for native speakers of
> English. But, after searching for the Internet and
> looking up my dictionary, I still cannot be sure which
> of the following terms is best for 4-gram (n-gram with n=4):
>
> quadgram
> quadragram
> quadrugram
> ???

'tetragram' works fine for me (but then, I'm far from being a native
speaker of English ...)

>
> Any comments !? Thanks !!
>

hope this helps,

> Shin -^^-
>

-- stefan

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