mistokenize

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ tokenize.

Verb

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

1. To tokenize incorrectly.
   • 1994, Mark A. Terribile, Practical C++, page 109:

     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.

   • 2016, Hans-Jörg Schmid, Entrenchment and the Psychology of Language Learning, page 111:

     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.

   • 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:

     The sentences were tokenized into words using the regex tokenizer which avoided the problems of mistokenizing while using the default NLTK tokenizer.

   • 2022, Toni Sivula, Deep Neural Networks in Drug-Target Activity Prediction and Machine Learning Assisted Docking of Ultra-Large Compound Libraries (Master's thesis):

     Similarly, all other two-character atomic representations in SMILES are being mistokenized.

See also

• mislexicalize
• misparse