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OOV (Out-Of-Vocabulary) classes refer to words or classes that do not belong to a specific, predetermined set of words (known as a “vocabulary”). OOV classes are encountered in natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as machine translation and speech recognition, where the system is required to recognize and respond to previously unseen words. In such cases, an NLP system must attempt to infer the intended meaning of the OOV class from its context. Since OOV classes can lead to increased ambiguity and confusion, NLP systems often require additional training data or support from external resources to properly account for them. One typical approach for handling OOV classes is to leverage a back-off technique. In this approach, a variety of linguistic features, such as part-of-speech (POS) tagging and syntactic structure, are used to generate alternatives to the OOV class. Other strategies for handling OOV classes include the development of strategies based on word embeddings, which allow semantic and syntactic connections to be made. Additionally, linguistic context can be used to disambiguate an OOV word. For instance, if a sentence contains a word that is not in the predetermined vocabulary, a parser might draw on the surrounding words to make a reasonable guess as to its intended meaning. Finally, variations of the aforementioned techniques have been developed using neural networks, increasing system accuracy and making them better suited for more complex NLP tasks.