w-shingling

noun

In natural language processing, a set of unique "shingles" (contiguous subsequences of tokens in a document) that can be used to gauge the similarity of documents.

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Meanings

nounw-shingling (plural w-shinglings)

plural w-shinglings

  1. computingIn natural language processing, a set of unique "shingles" (contiguous subsequences of tokens in a document) that can be used to gauge the similarity of documents.

Origin

w denotes the number of tokens in each shingle in the set.

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APA

w-shingling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/w-shingling

MLA

“w-shingling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/w-shingling. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “w-shingling,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/w-shingling.

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