0 the fact of being small in number or amount, often spread over a large area:
The sparseness of the population made it impracticable to provide separate schools for boys and girls.
The sparseness of evidence makes it difficult to assess if there is any connection.
The sparseness of the crowd at the start of the campaign hinted at political apathy.
The paper concentrates on the problem of data sparseness.
This sparseness is actually a factor throughout the book, despite the practical detail in the case studies.
The sparseness of food resources kept population densities quite low prior to the development of agriculture.
This is justified by the fact that sparseness is far more severe for lexical probabilities than for language model probabilities.
This is a typical result of the data sparseness we have encountered while training the word-based model.
We can overcome the problem of data sparseness by applying not co-occurring words but co-occurring clusters to the similarity of target words.
