mistokenize

verb

mistokenize

verb

Etymology From mis- + tokenize.

1

To tokenize incorrectly.

  • C++ considers ::*, .* and ->* each to be a single token and a single operator. Some pre-Release 2.0 implementations mistokenize expressions involving pointer-to-pointer-to-member.1994, Mark A. Terribile, Practical C++, page 109:
  • These were mostly proper names, such as Ronny Johnsen, or foreign language items such as ambre solaire (French) and fairie queene (Middle English), as well as a few misspelt or mistokenized items.2016, Hans-Jörg Schmid, Entrenchment and the Psychology of Language Learning, page 111:
2 more examples
  • The sentences were tokenized into words using the regex tokenizer which avoided the problems of mistokenizing while using the default NLTK tokenizer.2020 July, Anupama M Nair, Anusha Aji Justus, Arjun Ramesh, Binu Rajan M.R., “Event Extraction from Emails”, in International Journal of Computer Applications, volume 176, number 41:
  • Similarly, all other two-character atomic representations in SMILES are being mistokenized.2022, Toni Sivula, Deep Neural Networks in Drug-Target Activity Prediction and Machine Learning Assisted Docking of Ultra-Large Compound Libraries (Master's thesis):
Related terms
mislexicalize, misparse

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