preprocessing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of preprocess

plural preprocessings · alternative pre-processing

1. countableuncountableThe act of processing beforehand.

   Despite extensive data cleaning and preprocessing, it was not possible to completely eliminate all noise in such a large corpus.

   2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 108

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   In pattern recognition we can divide an entire task into three phases: data acquisition, data preprocessing, and decision classification.

   2002, Sing-Tze Bow, editor, Pattern Recognition and Image Preprocessing, Marcel Dekker, Inc., →ISBN

2. countableuncountableThe material formed by a preprocess.