13 terms

Idiolect

Idiolect is the unique set of language characteristics and speech patterns of an individual.

Idiom

An idiom is a phrase or expression that has a figurative meaning different from its literal interpretation.

Illocutionary Force

Illocutionary force is the intended significance of a speech act, expressing the speaker's intent in communication.

Implicature

Implicature is an aspect of meaning that is inferred from an utterance rather than directly stated.

In-Context Learning

In-Context Learning is a machine learning approach where models make predictions based on the context provided in the input data without explicit training on specific tasks.

Indo-European

Indo-European is a large language family that includes many of the languages spoken in Europe and Asia.

InferSent

InferSent is a sentence embeddings technique designed to capture the semantic meaning of sentences for various natural language processing tasks.

Information Retrieval

Information Retrieval (IR) is the process of finding and delivering relevant information from large datasets, typically in response to a user query.

Instruction Tuning

Instruction tuning is a training technique that teaches AI models to better follow human instructions by fine-tuning them on curated instruction–response examples.

Intent Recognition

Intent Recognition is the process of identifying the purpose or goal behind a user's input, often used in natural language processing and AI applications.

Inter-Annotator Agreement

Inter-Annotator Agreement is a measure of consistency between different annotators assessing the same data.

Interjection

An interjection is a word or phrase that expresses sudden or strong feeling or emotion.

Inverted Index

An inverted index is a data structure used to map content, such as words or terms, to their locations in a database or a document collection, enabling efficient search and retrieval.