preprocessing

See also: pre-processing

English

Verb

preprocessing

1. present participle and gerund of preprocess

Noun

preprocessing (countable and uncountable, plural preprocessings)

1. The act of processing beforehand.
   • 2002, Sing-Tze Bow, editor, Pattern Recognition and Image Preprocessing‎^[1], Marcel Dekker, Inc., →ISBN:

     In pattern recognition we can divide an entire task into three phases: data acquisition, data preprocessing, and decision classification.

   • 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 108:

     Despite extensive data cleaning and preprocessing, it was not possible to completely eliminate all noise in such a large corpus.

2. The material formed by a preprocess.

Alternative forms

• pre-processing

Antonyms

• postprocessing