mistokenize

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verb

To tokenize incorrectly.

Scrabble 26

Meanings

verbmistokenize (third-person singular simple present mistokenizes, present participle mistokenizing, simple past and past participle mistokenized)

present singular third person mistokenizes · participle present mistokenizing · participle past mistokenized · past mistokenized

  1. To tokenize incorrectly.

    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)
    3 more examples

    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

    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

Origin

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