The Art of Tokenization: Breaking Down Text for AI

I’m starting a series called “Demystifying NLP: From Text to Embeddings” on Towards Data Science. This series will provide an overview of text representation in modern NLP, progressing from basic concepts to more advanced techniques, and will include practical, hands-on examples.

In my first article, “The Art of Tokenization: Breaking Down Text for AI”, I explain how tokenization works in NLP and discuss various tokenization algorithms, including Byte-Pair Encoding.