Corpus
noun
A collection of written or spoken material in machine-readable form, for example for linguistic analysis.
We used a large linguistic corpus to train our language model.
Often appears as...
- linguistic corpus
- corpus of texts
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Technical
noun
The main part or body of a structure or organ.
The corpus of the uterus is larger than the cervix.
Often appears as...
- corpus luteum
- corpus callosum
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Technical
noun
A collection of written works by a specific author or on a specific subject.
The complete corpus of Shakespeare's works is impressive.
Often appears as...
- shakespearean corpus
- poetic corpus
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Academic
noun
The main body or substance of a thing.
The corpus of the argument is supported by several pieces of evidence.
Often appears as...
- corpus of evidence
- main corpus
noun
A collection of written or spoken material in machine-readable form, for example for linguistic analysis.
We used a large linguistic corpus to train our language model.
Often appears as...
- linguistic corpus
- corpus of texts
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The main part or body of a structure or organ.
The corpus of the uterus is larger than the cervix.
Often appears as...
- corpus luteum
- corpus callosum
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A collection of written works by a specific author or on a specific subject.
The complete corpus of Shakespeare's works is impressive.
Often appears as...
- shakespearean corpus
- poetic corpus
Usage tips
Academic
noun
The main body or substance of a thing.
The corpus of the argument is supported by several pieces of evidence.
Often appears as...
- corpus of evidence
- main corpus
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Pro Tip 1/2Language Research
A 'corpus' in computing is often used for analyzing languages, like forming grammar rules.
Researchers compiled a corpus of spoken English to study regional dialects.
Pro Tip 2/2Machine Learning
In computing, corpora are crucial for training language models in AI, like chatbots.
The AI's understanding improved after feeding it a more diverse language corpus.
Pro Tip 1/2Language Research
A 'corpus' in computing is often used for analyzing languages, like forming grammar rules.
Researchers compiled a corpus of spoken English to study regional dialects.
Pro Tip 2/2Machine Learning
In computing, corpora are crucial for training language models in AI, like chatbots.
The AI's understanding improved after feeding it a more diverse language corpus.
Pro Tip 1/2Language Research
A 'corpus' in computing is often used for analyzing languages, like forming grammar rules.
Researchers compiled a corpus of spoken English to study regional dialects.
Pro Tip 2/2Machine Learning
In computing, corpora are crucial for training language models in AI, like chatbots.
The AI's understanding improved after feeding it a more diverse language corpus.
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How to control someone...
They're sending electrical messages back and forth, and chemical messages. But some of your neurons right here in your motor cortex are going to send messages down when you move your arm like this. They're going to go down across your corpus callosum, down onto your spinal cord to your lower motor neuron out to your muscles here, and that electrical discharge is going to be picked up
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How playing an...
which are controlled in both hemispheres of the brain. It also combines the linguistic and mathematical precision, in which the left hemisphere is more involved, with the novel and creative content that the right excels in. For these reasons, playing music has been found to increase the volume and activity in the brain's corpus callosum,
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Do schools kill...
called the corpus callosum. It's thicker in women. Following off from Helen yesterday, this is probably why women are better at multitasking. Because you are, aren't you? There's a raft of research, but I know it from my personal life. If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often
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How in vitro fertilizatio...
to implant firmly into the endometrium, the inner lining of the uterus. Once implanted, the cells that are to become the placenta secrete a hormone that signals to the ovulated follicle that there is a pregnancy in the uterus. This helps rescue that follicle, now called the corpus luteum,
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Don't fear superintellige...
If I want to create an artificially intelligent legal assistant, I will teach it some corpus of law but at the same time I am fusing with it the sense of mercy and justice that is part of that law. In scientific terms, this is what we call ground truth, and here's the important
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The right brain vs. left...
separate from one another for those of you who understand computers our right hemisphere functions like a parallel processor while our left hemisphere functions like a serial processor the two hemispheres do communicate with one another through the corpus callosum
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Chimps have feelings and...
when they're not cabined in by statutes or constitutions, and a writ of habeus corpus is called the Great Writ, capital G, capital W, and it's meant to protect any of us who are detained against our will. A writ of habeus corpus is issued.
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Breaking Point PIPE Alone...
got to start eating again so I'm gonna stating my rations and when I run out well if I'm still not catching enough food if there are no salmon in the room and I guess I'm gonna have to call for help and corpus of food at least I
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Bill Saturno: Adding...
been dedicated to simply recording these monuments before they vanished into the hands of private collections and looters around the world that by documenting them before they were lost he actually provided the corpus of
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The Origin of the...
Galen helped lay the origins of modern medicine. Galen was a fight doctor who actually managed to write down his best practices. And writing down what he knew to be true, he created a corpus that was not just useful
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How to control someone...
They're sending electrical messages back and forth, and chemical messages. But some of your neurons right here in your motor cortex are going to send messages down when you move your arm like this. They're going to go down across your corpus callosum, down onto your spinal cord to your lower motor neuron out to your muscles here, and that electrical discharge is going to be picked up
Video examples
How playing an...
which are controlled in both hemispheres of the brain. It also combines the linguistic and mathematical precision, in which the left hemisphere is more involved, with the novel and creative content that the right excels in. For these reasons, playing music has been found to increase the volume and activity in the brain's corpus callosum,
Video examples
Do schools kill...
called the corpus callosum. It's thicker in women. Following off from Helen yesterday, this is probably why women are better at multitasking. Because you are, aren't you? There's a raft of research, but I know it from my personal life. If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often
Video examples
How in vitro fertilizatio...
to implant firmly into the endometrium, the inner lining of the uterus. Once implanted, the cells that are to become the placenta secrete a hormone that signals to the ovulated follicle that there is a pregnancy in the uterus. This helps rescue that follicle, now called the corpus luteum,
Video examples
Don't fear superintellige...
If I want to create an artificially intelligent legal assistant, I will teach it some corpus of law but at the same time I am fusing with it the sense of mercy and justice that is part of that law. In scientific terms, this is what we call ground truth, and here's the important
Video examples
The right brain vs. left...
separate from one another for those of you who understand computers our right hemisphere functions like a parallel processor while our left hemisphere functions like a serial processor the two hemispheres do communicate with one another through the corpus callosum
Video examples
Chimps have feelings and...
when they're not cabined in by statutes or constitutions, and a writ of habeus corpus is called the Great Writ, capital G, capital W, and it's meant to protect any of us who are detained against our will. A writ of habeus corpus is issued.
Video examples
Breaking Point PIPE Alone...
got to start eating again so I'm gonna stating my rations and when I run out well if I'm still not catching enough food if there are no salmon in the room and I guess I'm gonna have to call for help and corpus of food at least I
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Bill Saturno: Adding...
been dedicated to simply recording these monuments before they vanished into the hands of private collections and looters around the world that by documenting them before they were lost he actually provided the corpus of
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The Origin of the...
Galen helped lay the origins of modern medicine. Galen was a fight doctor who actually managed to write down his best practices. And writing down what he knew to be true, he created a corpus that was not just useful
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James Gleick
American Author
Despite the metadata attached to each tweet, and despite trails of retweets and 'favorite' tweets, the Twitter corpus lacks the latticework of hyperlinks that makes Google's algorithms so potent. Twitter's famous hashtags - #sandyhook or #fiscalcliff or #girls - are the crudest sort of signposts, not much help for smart searching.
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Andrew Ng
Chinese Scientist
Want to train a machine translation system? Train it on a gazillion pairs of sentences of parallel corpora, and that creates a lot of breakthrough results. Increasingly, I'm seeing results on small data where you want to try to take in results even if you have 1,000 images.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg
English Politician
The arguments over the limits that may be put on individuals suspected of sympathising with the enemy have occurred over the centuries. Habeas corpus was suspended during the Napoleonic wars, and Defence Regulation 18b was applied during the Second World War.
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Noah Feldman
American Author
Prisoners, according to the law, who are non-U.S. citizens and are detained outside the U.S. - including in Guantanamo Bay - are denied 'habeas corpus.' They are also denied the right to claim the Geneva Conventions confer certain rights on them.
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Ernest Mandel
Belgian Author
For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.
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James Meade
English Economist
My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics.
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Om Malik
Indian Writer
I worry about Google's data ethics and about the idea of handing over the corpus of my life, but I can't deny that it is exceptional at making sense of my ever-growing photo library.
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John Yoo
American Educator
The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Guantanamo.
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Sam Kean
American Writer
X-rays revealed that some people were born without a corpus callosum, and they seemed just fine.
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Keith Olbermann
American Journalist
Our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists.
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James Gleick
American Author
Despite the metadata attached to each tweet, and despite trails of retweets and 'favorite' tweets, the Twitter corpus lacks the latticework of hyperlinks that makes Google's algorithms so potent. Twitter's famous hashtags - #sandyhook or #fiscalcliff or #girls - are the crudest sort of signposts, not much help for smart searching.
Quote examples
Andrew Ng
Chinese Scientist
Want to train a machine translation system? Train it on a gazillion pairs of sentences of parallel corpora, and that creates a lot of breakthrough results. Increasingly, I'm seeing results on small data where you want to try to take in results even if you have 1,000 images.
Quote examples
Jacob Rees-Mogg
English Politician
The arguments over the limits that may be put on individuals suspected of sympathising with the enemy have occurred over the centuries. Habeas corpus was suspended during the Napoleonic wars, and Defence Regulation 18b was applied during the Second World War.
Quote examples
Noah Feldman
American Author
Prisoners, according to the law, who are non-U.S. citizens and are detained outside the U.S. - including in Guantanamo Bay - are denied 'habeas corpus.' They are also denied the right to claim the Geneva Conventions confer certain rights on them.
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Ernest Mandel
Belgian Author
For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.
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James Meade
English Economist
My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics.
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Om Malik
Indian Writer
I worry about Google's data ethics and about the idea of handing over the corpus of my life, but I can't deny that it is exceptional at making sense of my ever-growing photo library.
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John Yoo
American Educator
The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Guantanamo.
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Sam Kean
American Writer
X-rays revealed that some people were born without a corpus callosum, and they seemed just fine.
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Keith Olbermann
American Journalist
Our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists.
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