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What are the Advantages/Disadvantages of a n-gram model

Categories: NLP Data Preparation
Updated: October 3, 2023

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Advantages:

Can provide useful information beyond just considering individual tokens, as sometimes the full context cannot be conveyed by words in isolation

Disadvantages:

Increase the dimensionality of the vocabulary, potentially leading to slower training time and higher risk of overfitting

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