How can Tensorflow text be used with UnicodeScriptTokenizer to encode the data?

The ‘UnicodeScriptTokenizer’ can be used to tokenize the data. The start and end offsets of every word in each sentence can be obtained.

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Tokenization is the method of breaking down a string into tokens. These tokens can be words, numbers, or punctuation.

The important interfaces include Tokenizer and TokenizerWithOffsets each of which have a single method tokenize and tokenize_with_offsets respectively. There are multiple tokenizers, each of which implement TokenizerWithOffsets (which extends the Tokenizer class). This includes an option to get byte offsets into the original string. This helps know the bytes in the original string the token was created from.

Example

print("Unicode script tokenizer is being called")
tokenizer = text.UnicodeScriptTokenizer()
(tokens, start_offsets, end_offsets) = tokenizer.tokenize_with_offsets(['everything not saved will be lost.', u'Sad☹'.encode('UTF-8')])
print("The tokenized data is converted to a list")
print(tokens.to_list())
print("The beginning offsets of characters are stored in a list ")
print(start_offsets.to_list())
print("The ending offsets of characters are stored in a list ")
print(end_offsets.to_list())

Code credit −https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/tensorflow_text/intro

Output

Unicode script tokenizer is being called
The tokenized data is converted to a list
[[b'everything', b'not', b'saved', b'will', b'be', b'lost', b'.'], [b'Sad', b'\xe2\x98\xb9']]
The beginning offsets of characters are stored in a list
[[0, 11, 15, 21, 26, 29, 33], [0, 3]]
The ending offsets of characters are stored in a list
[[10, 14, 20, 25, 28, 33, 34], [3, 6]]

Explanation

• When tokenizing strings, it is important to know where in the original string the token originated from.

• Hence, every tokenizer that implements TokenizerWithOffsets has a tokenize_with_offsets method.

• This method returns the byte offsets along with the tokens.

• The start_offsets will tell the number of bytes in the original string each token starts at.

• The end_offsets will tell the number of bytes right after the point where each token ends.

• It is important to note that the start offsets are inclusive and end offsets are exclusive.