Tokenization Explained Line by Line | Natural Language Processing — Foundations #02

In this episode we break down tokenization in NLP, line by line. You will learn what tokenization is, the difference between word and sentence tokenization, how to use NLTK and spaCy, and why tokenization decisions matter for your models. What you will learn: What tokenization is and why it is the first step in NLP Word tokenization Sentence tokenization Tokenization with NLTK Tokenization with spaCy Subword tokenization and why modern models use it Common challenges with tokenization Next up: Text Cleaning and Preprocessing