Examples
| Field | Unit | Sample sequence | 1-gram sequence | 2-gram sequence | 3-gram sequence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vernacular name | unigram | bigram | trigram | ||
| Order of resulting Markov model | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Protein sequencing | amino acid | … Cys-Gly-Leu-Ser-Trp … | …, Cys, Gly, Leu, Ser, Trp, … | …, Cys-Gly, Gly-Leu, Leu-Ser, Ser-Trp, … | …, Cys-Gly-Leu, Gly-Leu-Ser, Leu-Ser-Trp, … |
| DNA sequencing | base pair | …AGCTTCGA… | …, A, G, C, T, T, C, G, A, … | …, AG, GC, CT, TT, TC, CG, GA, … | …, AGC, GCT, CTT, TTC, TCG, CGA, … |
| Computational linguistics | character | …to_be_or_not_to_be… | …, t, o, _, b, e, _, o, r, _, n, o, t, _, t, o, _, b, e, … | …, to, o_, _b, be, e_, _o, or, r_, _n, no, ot, t_, _t, to, o_, _b, be, … | …, to_, o_b, _be, be_, e_o, _or, or_, r_n, _no, not, ot_, t_t, _to, to_, o_b, _be, … |
| Computational linguistics | word | … to be or not to be … | …, to, be, or, not, to, be, … | …, to be, be or, or not, not to, to be, … | …, to be or, be or not, or not to, not to be, … |
Figure 1 shows several example sequences and the corresponding 1-gram, 2-gram and 3-gram sequences.
Here are further examples; these are word-level 3-grams and 4-grams (and counts of the number of times they appeared) from the Google n-gram corpus.
- ceramics collectables collectibles (55)
- ceramics collectables fine (130)
- ceramics collected by (52)
- ceramics collectible pottery (50)
- ceramics collectibles cooking (45)
4-grams
- serve as the incoming (92)
- serve as the incubator (99)
- serve as the independent (794)
- serve as the index (223)
- serve as the indication (72)
- serve as the indicator (120)
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