What is tokenization in Natural Language Processing?

Options

  • A. Converting text into images
  • B. Removing all meaningful words from a document
  • C. Breaking text into smaller units such as words or sentences
  • D. Encrypting a text document
  • E. None of the above

Correct Answer (Detailed Explanation is Below)

C. Breaking text into smaller units such as words or sentences

Detailed Explanation

Tokenization is a fundamental text-processing technique in NLP in which a text is divided into smaller units called tokens. Tokens may be words, sentences, or characters. For example, the sentence “AI is useful” can be divided into the tokens “AI”, “is”, and “useful”.