Tokenization
Breaking text into smaller units (tokens) such as words, subwords, or characters.
In-depth explanation
Tokenization is the first step in NLP pipelines, converting raw text into a sequence of tokens that models can process. Word tokenization splits on spaces; subword tokenization (like BPE, WordPiece) handles unknown words better. Each token is then typically mapped to a numerical ID. Tokenization choices significantly impact model performance.
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