recognitionrec‧og‧ni‧tion /ˌrekəɡˈnɪʃən/ ●●○ W3 noun 
Don’s recognition of the importance of Suzy in his liferecognition that There is general recognition that the study techniques of many students are weak.formal/official recognition official recognition of the need for jail reform2[singular, uncountable] public respect and thanks for someone’s work or achievements: He has achieved recognition and respect as a scientist. The importance of voluntary organizations in the economy still needs to be given recognition.in recognition of something He was presented with a gold watch in recognition of his service to the company.3[uncountable] the act of knowing someone or something because you have known or learned about them in the past: He stared at her, but there was no sign of recognition.change beyond/out of all recognition (=change completely) The bakery business has changed beyond all recognition in the last 10 years.4[uncountable] the act of officially accepting that an organization, government, person etc has legal or official authorityrecognition of the recognition of Latvia as an independent stateinternational/diplomatic recognition the government’s failure to achieve international recognition5speech recognition the ability of a computer to recognize speech: speech recognition systemsCOLLOCATIONS– Meaning 2verbsachieve recognition· Toni has been striving to achieve recognition for the past ten years.receive/be given/get recognition· Younger women artists are now getting wider recognition.win/gain recognition· The company has won recognition for its customer service.deserve recognition· They deserve recognition for the tremendous job they are doing.adjectivesnational/international/worldwide recognition· Like many pianists, he first achieved international recognition by winning a competition.public recognition· He won public recognition for his work when he was awarded an MBE.professional recognition· My father craved professional recognition.proper recognition· Frank Norris has never received proper recognition as a great novelist.wider recognition· She deserves wider recognition.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Although he was popular in Europe, Hendrix had yet to achieve recognition in his home country.
- In 1991, Bush granted diplomatic recognition to Russia.
- She had to spend 10 years as a struggling artist, before receiving any recognition for her work.
- She stared at him without recognition for a few seconds.
- Women painters got little recognition in those days.
- Effective and reliable handwriting recognition will necessarily form an important part of this new technology.
- He appeared at the Montreux festival in 1978, and at last began to get some international recognition as a pianist.
- Instead of recognition, supervisors focused on controlling workers-looking for and documenting rule infractions.
- It is suggested that recognition of this distinction is fundamental to the efficient and economical design and execution of stability tests.
- Most of them have to do with pattern recognition.
- The area of research is the automatic recognition of handwriting and printed text by computer.
- With appropriate coaching and recognition, you can help your employees be more productive and meet these goals.
Longman Language Activatorpraise that is given to someone or something
things you say to someone to show that you admire them or approve of what they have done: praise for: · The police deserve a lot of praise for the way they handled the situation.win/earn praise (=be praised for something): · The charity has earned widespread praise for its work.high praise (=praise from someone important or respected): · She said you have talent, and that's high praise coming from a best-selling author like her.
what you say when you tell someone they look nice or they have done something well: · "You have lovely hair," said Bob to Emma, who blushed at the compliment.pay/give somebody a compliment: · He's always paying her compliments and buying her flowers.shower somebody with compliments (=give someone a lot of compliments): · Rob always showered me with compliments and made me feel special.
nice things that you say about someone, which may not be true, in order to get something that you want from them: · She used a mixture of persuasion and flattery to get what she wanted.flattery will get you nowhere (=use this to tell someone that flattery will not help them get what they want): · I'll choose the best person for the job, so flattery will get you nowhere.
if someone gets recognition for their work, they get praised publicly, often after a long time: · She had to spend 10 years as a struggling artist, before receiving any recognition for her work.· Although he was popular in Europe, Hendrix had yet to achieve recognition in his home country.
formal an official statement praising someone, especially someone who has been very brave or very successful: · Patroni received an official commendation after rescuing twelve people from a sinking ship.· After winning the world championship, he received a note of commendation from the President.
difficult to recognize a strange person, voice, smell etc one that is not recognizable because it is different from other, similar things that you know already: · I could hear strange voices outside the room.· It was hard for her, going to live in a strange city where she knew no-one.· Mum, come quick! There's a strange man coming up the path.· Can you check out that strange noise outside?
also unrecognisable British difficult or impossible to recognize: · We've recovered two bodies from the wreckage, but they are unrecognizable.· The explosion left nothing but small, unrecognizable pieces of the aircraft scattered over the field.unrecognizable to: · Completely shaved and wearing prison clothes, the two sisters were unrecognizable to each other.
something that is unfamiliar is not recognizable because you have never seen it, heard it, done it etc before: · She spoke with an unfamiliar accent.· She noticed an unfamiliar truck parked across the street. unfamiliar to: · His name may be unfamiliar to Western audiences.
also out of all recognition if something has changed beyond recognition or out of all recognition , it has changed completely -- use this to emphasize that it is completely different now: · The business has changed beyond recognition since Cyril took over from his father.· The Internet has altered our understanding of the world beyond all recognition.· Susan's playing has improved out of all recognition.
to say thank you to someone to tell someone that you are pleased and grateful for something they have given you or done for you: · I spent three hours helping her and she didn't even thank me.thank somebody for (doing) something: · We must write and thank Cathy for the present.· The Governor publicly thanked the people of Arizona for supporting him during his campaign.thank somebody profusely (=thank someone a lot in a very obvious way): · A relieved Mr Maxwell thanked his lawyer profusely.
to thank someone for what they have done: · I wanted to come round and say thank you in person.say thank you to: · This little gift is our way of saying thank you to everyone who worked so hard.say thank you for: · Make sure you say thank you for your birthday presents.
formal to show someone that you are grateful for something they have done, by giving them something or by doing something special for them: · He found a special way of showing his appreciation -- dinner at the Ritz.show your appreciation for: · We have decided to pay a special bonus to everyone on the staff to show our appreciation for their hard work during the year.
formal to say how grateful you are to someone for something they have done - use this in a speech or in a letter: express your thanks/gratitude for: · I should like to express my thanks for all that you have done.express your thanks/gratitude to: · He made a short speech expressing his gratitude to all those who had sent him letters of support.
to tell people publicly that someone has done something to help you and that you are grateful for it: · In his speech he acknowledged the help his parents gave him at the start of his career.· I did a lot of work on that book. It annoys me that the editor never acknowledged it.
also recognise British if a country or a large organization recognizes something important that someone has done for them, they officially and publicly thank them, by giving them something or doing something special for them: · The government recognized his bravery in the battle by awarding him the Military Cross.· Her contribution to horticulture was recognized when a new rose was named after her.
if you are given something in recognition of something you have done, it is publicly given to you as a way of thanking you: · He was awarded a knighthood in recognition of his work for charity.
WORD SETSabsolutism, nounadministration, nounagency, nounagent, nounagent provocateur, nounalderman, nounally, nounassembly, nounautarchy, nounautocracy, nounautocrat, nounautonomous, adjectiveautonomy, nounban, nounbaron, nounbig government, nounbilateral, adjectivebody politic, nounbudget, nounbureau, nounbureaucracy, nouncabinet, nouncaliphate, nouncanton, nouncanvass, verbcapital, nouncapitalist, nounCapitol Hill, nounCBE, nouncede, verbcentral, adjectivecentral government, nouncentralism, nouncentralize, verbchancellery, nounchancery, nouncharter, nouncharter, verbchief, nounCIA, the, city hall, nouncity-state, nounclient state, nounCo., coalition, nouncold war, nouncolonial, adjectivecolonial, nouncolonialism, nouncolonize, verbcolony, nouncommissioner, nouncommune, nounconsort, nounconstitution, nounconstitutional, adjectiveconstitutionality, nounconvention, nouncoronation, nouncount, nouncounterintelligence, nouncountess, nouncounty, nouncounty council, noundecolonize, verbdemocracy, noundemocratic, adjectivedependency, noundespotism, noundétente, noundethrone, verbdevolution, noundictatorial, adjectivedictatorship, noundiplomacy, noundiplomatic immunity, noundirective, noundisinformation, noundispatch, noundispensation, noundissent, verbdistrict council, noundocumentation, nounDOD, dominion, nounDowning Street, noundynasty, nounearl, nounearldom, nounempire, nounEuro, adjectiveEurope, nounexecutive, nounexecutive privilege, nounfall, verbfall, nounfederalism, nounfeudal, adjectivefeudalism, nounfeudalistic, adjectivegazette, nounhead of state, nounhigh commission, nounimperial, adjectiveindependence, nounindependent, adjectiveinfrastructure, nouninstigate, verbinsurgent, nouninsurrection, nounintelligence, nouninternal, adjectivejunket, nounjunta, nounkingdom, nounkingship, nounkitchen cabinet, nounland office, nounland registry, nounlegation, nounlegislature, nounlicensed, adjectivelocal authority, nounlocal government, nounmaharajah, nounmaharani, nounmandate, nounmandated, adjectivemartial law, nounMBE, nounmeasure, nounmidterm, nounministry, nounminority government, nounmisrule, nounmonarchy, nounmonolith, nounmonolithic, adjectivemoratorium, nounmouthpiece, nounmove, verbmover, nounmunicipal, adjectivemunicipality, nounNASA, nounnational, adjectivenational debt, nounNational Health Service, the, nationalize, verbnational monument, nounnation state, nounNATO, nounneocolonialism, nounneutral, adjectiveneutral, nounneutralize, verbnon-aligned, adjectivenon-intervention, nounnon-proliferation, noun-ocracy, suffix-ocrat, suffixofficiate, verboligarchy, nounoperational, adjectiveoperative, nounoverthrow, verboverthrow, nounoverturn, verbpacify, verbpact, nounpalatinate, nounpardon, nounparish, nounpartition, nounpass, verbpeer, nounpeer, verbpeerage, nounpeeress, nounpermit, nounplenary, adjectiveplutocracy, nounpolice state, nounpolitburo, nounpolitical science, nounpolity, nounpork, nounpork barrel, nounportfolio, nounpossession, nounprecinct, nounprefecture, nounpremiership, nounpresidium, nounprotectorate, nounpublic, adjectivepublic service, nounquota, nounR, ratify, verbrealm, nounrecall, nounrecognition, nounrecognize, verbregency, nounregent, nounregime, nounregister, nounregulation, nounrelease, nounrepeal, verbrepresentative, nounrepressive, adjectiverepublic, nounrepublican, adjectiverescind, verbreunify, verbrevoke, verbrising, nounroyalist, nounruling, adjectivesanction, nounseat, nounsecret agent, nounsecurity service, nounself-governing, adjectiveself-rule, nounsheikh, nounshire, nounsocial democracy, nounsocialist, adjectivesocial service, nounsovereign, adjectivesovereignty, nounspin doctor, nounstaff, nounstate, nounstatehood, nounStatehouse, nounstate line, nounstate of emergency, nounstatewide, adjectivesubject, adjectivesubject, verbsultanate, nounsummit, nounsuperpower, nounsuppress, verbsupranational, adjectivesurgery, nounsuzerainty, nountechnocracy, nounterritory, nounthrone, nountopple, verbtotalitarian, adjectivetown planning, nountownship, nountransit visa, nountreaty, nountribalism, nountripartite, adjectivetrusteeship, nountsarism, nountyrant, nountzarism, noununconstitutional, adjectiveunification, noununify, verbunilateral, adjectiveunion, nounUnion Jack, nounvassal, nounVIP, nounviscount, nounviscountess, nounwelfare state, nounWhitehall, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Meaning 2verbs The statement was a belated acknowledgement that the project had not been a success. formal recognition of the reformed churchCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Toni has been striving to achieve recognition for the past ten years.
· Younger women artists are now getting wider recognition.
· The company has won recognition for its customer service.
· They deserve recognition for the tremendous job they are doing.
adjectives· Like many pianists, he first achieved international recognition by winning a competition.
· He won public recognition for his work when he was awarded an MBE.
· My father craved professional recognition.
· Frank Norris has never received proper recognition as a great novelist.
· She deserves wider recognition.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The statement was a belated acknowledgement that the project had not been a success. (=public respect and thanks)· The teaching profession deserves more recognition.
(=acceptance that a government or organization has official authority)· Beijing's diplomatic recognition of South Korea
formal recognition of the reformed church· Most importantly it is a belated recognition that imperialism offers a fantastically huge and barely mined seam of stories.· Such a belated recognition is likely to strike a reader as old news.
· He had hoped for concessions in return, including diplomatic recognition.
· Moscow was delighted, seeing formal recognition of its sphere of influence.· During the following twelve months the sultan issued a series of decrees which gave formal recognition to the MiloÜ-Marasli agreement.· Essentially the formal recognition of a union legitimises workers' resistance, and this can immeasurably strengthen their bargaining position.· But any more fundamental change, which would constitute the ultimate formal recognition of their new identity, is to be denied.· Future plans for the Sciences will also involve negotiations with appropriate bodies regarding formal recognition of the new provision.
· He entered Paris on 25 August and in October his government was given full recognition by the Allies.
· There is also general recognition that for many years prisons have failed to meet these objectives.· Further the Commission sought a general system of recognition of diplomas, subject to a minimum three years post secondary training.· The above considerations make a general purpose handwriting recognition system a virtual impossibility.· If there is little peripheral information in the non-risky exemplars, attention focusing would have no general effect on recognition sensitivity.
· The importance of this enabling approach is, happily, gaining greater recognition.· The wines of Bergères-les-Vertus are firm and fruity, with good extract and fine balance and well deserving of greater recognition.· There is a greater recognition than there was five years ago that the ten million people over retirement age are not homogeneous.· They argue that the barriers to participation which exist in society should be given greater recognition.· This has led to a greater recognition of the complexity of development.
· Third, there is the growing recognition that Labour could not carry through a radical programme of change without mass support.· Today that link is stronger, as part of a growing recognition that cathedral, parish and diocese all belong together.· There is a growing recognition by educators and others that traditional schooling does not adequately serve an increasingly large number of students.· Today it seems to evince a growing recognition that totalization can not be achieved without a movement involving the transcendence of itself.· But, despite growing international recognition of the plight of elephants on general, the wider problems of their conservation remain.· There was a growing recognition that the war had solved nothing.
· He appeared at the Montreux festival in 1978, and at last began to get some international recognition as a pianist.· William Golding has the same international recognition.· But, despite growing international recognition of the plight of elephants on general, the wider problems of their conservation remain.· Degree qualifications, of course, already carry international recognition. 6.
· If, moreover, the unit in question receives widespread legal recognition, we call it a sovereign state.
· There are also chapters on those areas most affected by the Seventh Directive: harmonisation, equivalence and mutual recognition.· The mutual recognition of ministers and members that is inherent in all union schemes plays a crucial role here.· The 1991 Basic Agreement, which looked forward to a peace treaty and mutual recognition, can also be reaffirmed.· There has to be a mutual recognition among the partners to sacrifice income.· However faster progress is being achieved via the mechanism of mutual recognition.· Steps towards free movement of labour have been taken by use of mutual recognition of many vocational qualifications.· But harmonization will now concentrate on the essentials - the peripherals will be left to a process of mutual recognition by states.· Initially mutual recognition has been targeted at the professions and holders of higher level qualifications.
· Voters supported proposition 22 by 61 % to 39 %, bestowing official recognition only on marriages between men and women.· The stigmata on this foot was carefully examined during its official recognition in 1597.· Blake returned to London a hero in the eyes of MI6 but the secret nature of his work precluded any official recognition.· But for the forgotten victims - the wives - there is little official recognition, let alone pressure for reform.· A further twenty-three laborious years were to elapse before official recognition of his services to Britain was given.· In this way, for the first time, the Association obtains official recognition.· He gained only minimal official recognition for his work; death prevented his election to the Royal Society.· This afforded Ted Church's involvement official recognition.
· This can be on-line or off-line recognition of hand-printed characters, or of machine-printed characters using optical character recognition.· One projected use is for optical recognition experiments.· This could include word processing, a database, case management and optical character recognition.· One example is the method of recognition using template matching which is applied in both speech recognition and optical character recognition.
· Their Lordships certainly gained added public recognition from television.· Almost as dramatic as the loss of personal or private recognition of their achievements was the loss of public recognition.· On another level, de Gaulle's public recognition of self-determination and the option of independence opened up new possibilities for negotiation.· No public recognition of a claim means no authority.· By dint of their dogged determination and desire for public recognition, they united the shipping interests in London.· In many churches their arrival receives no public recognition.· Another large reservoir of fossil fuels, solid gas hydrates, has recently come to public recognition.
· An obvious candidate is a visual recognition system.· Kunihiko Fukushima developed the Neocognitron, a neural net-work model for visual pattern recognition.· We then went on to describe the Johnston-McClelland model of visual word recognition and the Cohort model of auditory word recognition.· There are mazes, obstacle courses, visual recognition games, trial-and-error experiments, arcade-style shooting games.· The only way in which visual recognition of a word can be primed is by previously seeing the word.· Thus hearing a word, or producing it in response to an incomplete definition, will not prime visual word recognition.· The priming experiments can tell us something more specific about the visual recognition system used for identifying words.· Obviously, being transparent makes visual recognition by both predators and prey more difficult.
NOUN· This can be on-line or off-line recognition of hand-printed characters, or of machine-printed characters using optical character recognition.· Clustering applications would include things like character recognition, sonar / radar signal classification, and robotic control.· Parsytec plans to release an entire family of character recognition systems with prices starting at £15,000.· This could include word processing, a database, case management and optical character recognition.· And character recognition is relatively slow and prone to errors even on powerful computers.· Further details of printed character recognition systems are not included here in order to concentrate on cursive handwriting systems.· Typically context is used only in the form of spelling correction information to compensate for errors in character recognition.
· Many of these applications may need some form of handwriting recognition.· Script recognition Handwriting recognition is performed either on-line or off-line.· Such tablets first became available in the late 1950's and precipitated considerable activity in on-line handwriting recognition.· On-line handwriting recognition requires some kind of digitising data tablet to capture the script as it is written.· Effective and reliable handwriting recognition will necessarily form an important part of this new technology.· Systems for handwriting recognition Script recognition systems are traditionally most heavily concerned with the problem of pattern recognition.· There are arguments in favour of handwriting recognition.
· As noted, eurobond issuers need to be of good reputation, whether in terms of credit quality or name recognition.· The purchase provides the Rowling family with lodging properties that carry instant name recognition, analysts said.· Early money will make a big difference in establishing name recognition, especially in the crowded Ward 6 race.· All have relatively low name recognition.
· In other words information is collected at the pattern recognition stage, and all further levels select from this.· Kunihiko Fukushima developed the Neocognitron, a neural net-work model for visual pattern recognition.· Intelligent processes, such as: pattern recognition, image reconstruction, learning, reasoning by deduction, expert problem solving.· It is well suited to speech and pattern recognition applications, and makes neural networks an add-on technology to existing processing.· Simply improving the performance of the pattern recognition module will not produce a recognition performance comparable to that of a human.· Most of them have to do with pattern recognition.· The pattern recognition technique enables the computer to cope with a certain amount of operator error, minor misspellings make no difference.· The following discussion investigates improvements which could be made to augment the pattern recognition information.
· Discussion: Evidently, collocational information can significantly improve the recognition process.· This thesis examines the use of syntactic information for assisting in the text recognition process.· Most existing recognition systems concentrate on the pattern recognition process, and have not utilised the substantial amounts of available context.· Moreover, the recognition process is a double mirror structure in that a Subject is also recognized and thereby constituted.· Another bias is in the emphasis on recognition processes, rather than linguistic and comprehension ones.· As the character candidates are received from the pattern recognition process the combinations of characters are checked for validity in the lexicon.· A similar recognition process is carried out for static input.
· Elastic curve matching has also been applied to cursive script recognition.· For the reasons explained above, the interest in script recognition systems has been expanding in recent years.· Systems for handwriting recognition Script recognition systems are traditionally most heavily concerned with the problem of pattern recognition.· Wright's system for cursive script recognition has efficient low-level processing but relies on a dictionary and higher level linguistic processing.· However, parameters for them for individual writers could be extracted from an initial training phase for a script recognition system.· Handwriting, or script recognition is a difficult task due to the inherent ambiguity within the input.· This principle could be applied to the current script recognition system to make best use of all available information.
· Despite a large amount of research into automatic speech recognition the results have been unimpressive.· Continuous speech recognition and synthesis are additional examples of tasks neural networks are undertaking with reasonable success.· A commonly used argument in favour of speech recognition is that it is the most natural communication medium.· Areas such as vision, continuous speech recognition and synthesis, and machine learning have been hard.· Our first aim was to examine the lexical access components of a number of existing speech recognition systems.· What you hear will incorporate high-fidelity sound, speech synthesis, and speech recognition.· Noisy Environments: speech recognition is made difficult if interference is created by noisy machinery or extraneous conversations.· Writing allows private communication with the computer that is not possible with speech recognition.
· Significant improvements were found in the recognition performance of the recognition system.· An obvious candidate is a visual recognition system.· Our first aim was to examine the lexical access components of a number of existing speech recognition systems.· Parsytec plans to release an entire family of character recognition systems with prices starting at £15,000.· However this knowledge is not available in our recognition system.· Systems for handwriting recognition Script recognition systems are traditionally most heavily concerned with the problem of pattern recognition.· Furthermore with a text recognition system, as the lexicon gets larger the problems increase.
· Analogously, computerised text recognition needs to use higher level knowledge to achieve comparable levels of performance.· An ulterior motive for performing text recognition is to convert existing printed material into a computer format that permits further processing.· The development of reliable text recognition procedures would serve two important functions.· Conclusions A probabilistic syntax processor has been developed to assist in the selection of the correct words for a text recognition system.· There are difficulties associated with automatic text recognition however.· Existing systems for performing text recognition are susceptible to errors.· For an automatic text recognition system to succeed it should exploit as much of the higher level information as is computationally possible.· Incorporation of some of the linguistic information that humans employ is necessary to improve text recognition systems.
· Models of face processing Finally, I want to move from cognitive models of word recognition to cognitive models of face recognition.· In the first stage of word recognition, cohort reduction occurs as early sensory information defines the word-initial cohort.· We then went on to describe the Johnston-McClelland model of visual word recognition and the Cohort model of auditory word recognition.· In doing so we have argued that the processes involved in word recognition are rather different for spoken and printed words.· As this is the case, part of the research will examine various experimental techniques used previously in studies on word recognition.· Thus hearing a word, or producing it in response to an incomplete definition, will not prime visual word recognition.· However, the implications of the work extend beyond theories of face recognition to theories of visual object and word recognition.· Access to the compound tree is achieved through the word recognition tree.
VERB· All of these situations produce character-level ambiguity which must be reduced to achieve good recognition performance.· The training to achieve a recognition speed of 6o characters per second was accomplished in 3 1 / 2 hours.· Access to the compound tree is achieved through the word recognition tree.· They had to achieve managerial recognition that accountability to colleagues in the team was important alongside accountability to individual agencies.· For example: Handwriting contains many similarly shaped characters which must be distinguished from each other to achieve effective recognition.· Not to have achieved recognition as a failure, felt Dyson, was almost worse than the failing itself.
· Clearly the role has changed beyond all recognition.· Parenting in many ways has changed beyond recognition.· This is another area which is changing out of all recognition since closure of the colliery and removal of sidings etc.· In the course of a single year, Moon-Watcher and his companions had changed almost beyond recognition.· The weather might be dull, it might be drizzling, but Broadstairs promenade had changed almost beyond recognition.· Since then, the ideas of which Dawkins was an early champion have changed biology beyond recognition.· John Butterworth joined the company as an apprentice 30 years ago he says Westcott has changed beyond all recognition.· But a small error in the procedure could easily leave her inoperable, or at least changed beyond recognition.
· These inspectors nominate those staff they feel deserve extra recognition.· So splendid, in fact, it deserves special recognition.· This is a pity for his achievement in securing the crucial Committee vote deserves the members' recognition for his astuteness.· You need to behave as though you are worthy of, and deserve, recognition.· We train as hard and deserve recognition.
· He has given the nurses every support in their efforts to gain recognition, and will speak at their conference.· The brothers' work continued to stir interest and gain recognition.· The importance of this enabling approach is, happily, gaining greater recognition.· M that he began to gain recognition as an offensive coordinator with an effective wide-open attack and the ability to groom quarterbacks.· To gain attention and recognition we need to be able to attend to and recognise others.· Some remained essentially local, some gained a widespread popular recognition, and certain deities rose to national significance.· To gain recognition unions had to accept the logic and rules of the capitalist system.
· Good practice involves careful listening, giving recognition, with patience.· Female managers are also about 15 percent more likely to give recognition for good work.· Every time you meet some one, they give you rank and recognition according to what you say and how you say it.· We would give that some recognition.· Both parties will give rank and recognition according to individual beliefs and values.· Appeal gives status and recognition to protest.· There are some places where this is done: too few, and far too seldom given recognition.
· But in the first, euphoric phase of the disease, only the apparent text is granted recognition by the anorexic.· Mike Leavitt has signed into law a bill banning public schools from granting recognition or access to gay or lesbian student groups.· With time, the government grants a DeFacto recognition by installing running water, electricity, and by paving the roads.
· Vast numbers of people, especially among the elderly, receive no financial recognition of their moderate disability.· It is the third year the station has received this national recognition.· Their job does not always receive the recognition which it deserves.· In many churches their arrival receives no public recognition.· In the same year Clovis received some recognition from the emperor Anastasius.· If, moreover, the unit in question receives widespread legal recognition, we call it a sovereign state.· Her success had been due to her own qualities; and she had even received national recognition for some of her work.· But it is essential that the originators receive due recognition.
· Lawrence, however, feels the team have not won the recognition they deserve.· The program, Striving Toward Excellence in Performance, ultimately won national recognition for innovation in government.· There was still the bitter disappointment of his failure to win the recognition he deserved.· By 1920 she had proved herself by earning a living in a difficult world, and by winning recognition in literary circles.· Before he was incapacitated, Menelik had won recognition for his conquests and acceptance of his new frontiers.· It was those sessions which won the band initial recognition and a recording contract.· Meanwhile, the Mossley Mill project has also won national recognition.· Now, however, Louisa is winning the recognition her well composed and deeply appealing pictures deserve.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
- A commonly used argument in favour of speech recognition is that it is the most natural communication medium.
- Areas such as vision, continuous speech recognition and synthesis, and machine learning have been hard.
- Continuous speech recognition and synthesis are additional examples of tasks neural networks are undertaking with reasonable success.
- Despite a large amount of research into automatic speech recognition the results have been unimpressive.
- Indeed, in the later chapters we will show that this is impractical for any relatively unconstrained speech recognition system.
- Noisy Environments: speech recognition is made difficult if interference is created by noisy machinery or extraneous conversations.
- Possible applications are continuous speech recognition and commands to robot arms.
- What you hear will incorporate high-fidelity sound, speech synthesis, and speech recognition.
WORD FAMILYnounrecognitionadjectiverecognizable ≠ unrecognizableverbrecognizeadverbrecognizably
1[singular, uncountable] the act of realizing and accepting that something is true or importantrecognition of Don’s recognition of the importance of Suzy in his liferecognition that There is general recognition that the study techniques of many students are weak.formal/official recognition official recognition of the need for jail reform2[singular, uncountable] public respect and thanks for someone’s work or achievements: He has achieved recognition and respect as a scientist. The importance of voluntary organizations in the economy still needs to be given recognition.in recognition of something He was presented with a gold watch in recognition of his service to the company.3[uncountable] the act of knowing someone or something because you have known or learned about them in the past: He stared at her, but there was no sign of recognition.change beyond/out of all recognition (=change completely) The bakery business has changed beyond all recognition in the last 10 years.4[uncountable] the act of officially accepting that an organization, government, person etc has legal or official authorityrecognition of the recognition of Latvia as an independent stateinternational/diplomatic recognition the government’s failure to achieve international recognition5speech recognition the ability of a computer to recognize speech: speech recognition systemsCOLLOCATIONS– Meaning 2verbsachieve recognition· Toni has been striving to achieve recognition for the past ten years.receive/be given/get recognition· Younger women artists are now getting wider recognition.win/gain recognition· The company has won recognition for its customer service.deserve recognition· They deserve recognition for the tremendous job they are doing.adjectivesnational/international/worldwide recognition· Like many pianists, he first achieved international recognition by winning a competition.public recognition· He won public recognition for his work when he was awarded an MBE.professional recognition· My father craved professional recognition.proper recognition· Frank Norris has never received proper recognition as a great novelist.wider recognition· She deserves wider recognition.