The phrase "unknown words" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It can refer to words that are unfamiliar or have not been previously encountered by the speaker or writer. Example: The foreign language film was difficult to understand because it contained many unknown words.
(h) Smoothing of rule probabilities for unknown words (see parser.SmoothLexicon).
Coping with ambiguity and unknown words through probabilistic models.
FLORS uses robust representations that work especially well for unknown words and for known words with unseen tags.
Using only context clues from the article, make educated guesses as to the definitions of the unknown words.
Ninety-six adult EFL learners were divided into four groups, and were required to learn the meanings of 14 unknown words.
Such predictability is endearing and may be valuable: novelty is not everything, we need our tales retold, the known found new in unknown words.
One of the glories of reading Potter – of having her books read to me – was the discovering of unexpected and unknown words.
To move an exciting story along, good teachers sometimes use whole language methods that urge children to guess at unknown words from context or pictures.
Even if you barely know the language, you can then infer meaning from fragments you comprehend, guessing at unknown words from context.
They reported no unknown words/grammatical structures, nor did they have a problem with the testing procedures.
Children with the lowest scores on the social cognition tests showed atypical responses to the unknown words no response at all, for example, or activity in a different part of the brain, while those with the higher scores showed a more typical pattern of brain activation in the left hemisphere, the authors report online today in PLOS ONE.
