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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

recognizer en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English cognize English recognize English -er English recognizer From recognize + -er.

Meanings

  1. A person, device, or software algorithm that recognizes.
    • The microphone signal was fed to a custom-made, real-time song recognizer that detected the first stereotypic syllable of song motifs using a two-layer neural network trained on spectrotemporal song data. 2008 November 12, Georg B. Keller, Richard H. R. Hahnloser, “Neural processing of auditory feedback during vocal practice in a songbird”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7226, →DOI:
    • If we drive to work, a face recognizer installed in the car will decide whether to authorize our usage of the vehicle[…] 2005, Stan Z. Li, Anil K. Jain, Handbook of face recognition, page 388:

Forms

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Deriveds

superrecognizer