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Meaning of OOV | Babel Free

Noun CEFR A2
/uːv/

Definitions

  1. An item in a television (especially news) broadcast consisting of pictures alone, to be played on screen while the presenter continues to talk out of vision and provide commentary.
  2. Initialism of out of vocabulary: describing a term encountered in the input which is not present in a system's dictionary or database of known terms.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Examples

“Rather, the n-grams are calculated as usual only for the most common k words, and all other words are regarded as Out-Of-Vocabulary (OOV) items and mapped to a single token such as .”

CEFR level

A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.

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