Package opennlp.tools.tokenize

Class WordpieceTokenizer

java.lang.Object

opennlp.tools.tokenize.WordpieceTokenizer

All Implemented Interfaces:

Tokenizer

public class WordpieceTokenizer
extends Object
implements Tokenizer

A Tokenizer implementation which performs tokenization using word pieces.

Adapted under MIT license from https://github.com/robrua/easy-bert.

For reference see:

• https://www.tensorflow.org/text/guide/subwords_tokenizer#applying_wordpiece
• https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/wordpiece/vignettes/basic_usage.html

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
WordpieceTokenizer(Set<String> vocabulary)	Initializes a WordpieceTokenizer with a vocabulary and a default maxTokenLength of 50.
WordpieceTokenizer(Set<String> vocabulary, int maxTokenLength)	Initializes a WordpieceTokenizer with a vocabulary and a custom maxTokenLength.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
int	getMaxTokenLength()
String[]	tokenize(String text)	Splits a string into its atomic parts.
Span[]	tokenizePos(String text)	Finds the boundaries of atomic parts in a string.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

WordpieceTokenizer

public WordpieceTokenizer(Set<String> vocabulary)

Initializes a WordpieceTokenizer with a vocabulary and a default maxTokenLength of 50.

Parameters:

vocabulary - A set of tokens considered the vocabulary.

WordpieceTokenizer

public WordpieceTokenizer(Set<String> vocabulary,
 int maxTokenLength)

Initializes a WordpieceTokenizer with a vocabulary and a custom maxTokenLength.

Parameters:

vocabulary - A set of tokens considered the vocabulary.

maxTokenLength - A non-negative number that is used as maximum token length.

Method Details

tokenizePos

public Span[] tokenizePos(String text)

Description copied from interface: Tokenizer

Finds the boundaries of atomic parts in a string.

Specified by:

tokenizePos in interface Tokenizer

Parameters:

text - The string to be tokenized.

Returns:

The spans (offsets into s) for each token as the individuals array elements.

tokenize

public String[] tokenize(String text)

Description copied from interface: Tokenizer

Splits a string into its atomic parts.

Specified by:

tokenize in interface Tokenizer

Parameters:

text - The string to be tokenized.

Returns:

The String[] with the individual tokens as the array elements.

getMaxTokenLength

public int getMaxTokenLength()

Returns:

The maximum token length.