bottom-up encoding
nounUK /ˌbɒtəm ʌp ɪnˈkəʊdɪŋ/
US /ˌbɑːtəm ʌp ɪnˈkoʊdɪŋ/
A way of building something by starting with the small parts and putting them together.
The teacher used bottom-up encoding to help the kids learn letters before whole words.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. In computing, a method where a system is designed by first defining its smallest components and then combining them.
The team chose bottom-up encoding to build the parser from individual tokens upward.
3. In psychology, processing that begins with basic sensory features before higher-level meaning.
Reading unfamiliar words often relies on bottom-up encoding of each letter.
4. In linguistics, an approach that starts from sounds or morphemes and builds toward larger units.
Their model of bottom-up encoding explains how phonemes combine into words.