background knowledge
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbackgroundandknowledge
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background
noun
uk/ˈbæk.ɡraʊnd/us/ˈbæk.ɡraʊnd/
the things that can be seen behind the main things or people in ...
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knowledge
noun
uk/ˈnɒl.ɪdʒ/us/ˈnɑː.lɪdʒ/
understanding of or information about a subject that you get by experience or study, either known by one person or by ...
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(Definition ofbackgroundandknowledgefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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A parallel phenomenon occurred withbackgroundknowledge.
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Three components ofbackgroundknowledgein reading comprehension.
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Will the activation ofbackgroundknowledgelead to better comprehension?
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The third problem is the contestants' limitedbackgroundknowledge.
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Effects on reading comprehension of buildingbackgroundknowledge.
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The first one is the efficient representation ofbackgroundknowledge.
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It can deal with much more complex domains includingbackgroundknowledge.
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It quickly became apparent that a considerable amount ofbackgroundknowledgeunderlies the oesophageal cancer network.
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In our study, allbackgroundknowledgehad to be shared between the two authors.
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This construction is semi-automatic as it requiresbackgroundknowledgeabout the domain.
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The use ofbackgroundknowledgecan greatly extend the rationale extraction capabilities.
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Less proficient learners relied more onbackgroundknowledgeand keyword inferencing.
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Therefore, their system places an important role forbackgroundknowledgein the discovery process.
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Substantially more interesting explanations of designer intent can be generated through the use ofbackgroundknowledge.
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Nonetheless,backgroundknowledgeappears to provide strong support for comprehension in many contexts.
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Statistical methods need less initial resources than symbolic ones; they do not considerbackgroundknowledge.
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Finally, they are easy to implement as they do not need anybackgroundknowledge.
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This section summarizes the relevantbackgroundknowledgeon machine-learning approaches to dialogue strategy design.
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Due to the lack ofbackgroundknowledge, the resulting ontologies were relatively shallow.
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The social categories used in the analysis were constructed using thisbackgroundknowledgeabout the community.
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However, it was shown, too, that incongruentbackgroundknowledgecould lead to misinterpretations.
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Even for those with thebackgroundknowledge, the canvassing is a formidable task.
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The only proposed predicate that is not represented in thebackgroundknowledgeis quarter_circuit_hole.
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However, we stress that this paper can be read without anybackgroundknowledgeof this sort.
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Another approach to improving learning performance is to integratebackgroundknowledgeinto the learning process.
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