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Bigram




''Gappy bigrams'' or ''skipping bigrams'' are word pairs which allow gaps (perhaps avoiding connecting words, or allowing some simulation of dependencies, as in a Dependency Grammar ).

''Head word bigrams'' are gappy bigrams with an explicit dependency relationship.

The term is also used in Cryptography , where ''bigram frequency attacks'' have sometimes been used to attempt to solve Cryptograms . See Frequency Analysis .

Bigrams help provide the conditional probability of a word given the preceding word, when Bayes' Theorem is applied: