OOV

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uːv/
• Rhymes: -uːv

Noun

OOV (plural OOVs)

1. (broadcasting) 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.

Prepositional phrase

OOV

1. (computational linguistics) 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.
   • 1991, Christopher D. Manning, Hinrich Schütze, Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, →ISBN, page 199:

     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 <UNK>.

Anagrams

• ovo-