The number of tokens in a string or vector of strings — ntokens • pangoling

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The number of tokens in a string or vector of strings

Usage

ntokens(
  x,
  model = getOption("pangoling.causal.default"),
  add_special_tokens = NULL,
  config_tokenizer = NULL
)

Arguments

x: character input
model: Name of a pre-trained model or folder. One should be able to use models based on "gpt2". See hugging face website.
add_special_tokens: Whether to include special tokens. It has the same default as the AutoTokenizer method in Python.
config_tokenizer: List with other arguments that control how the tokenizer from Hugging Face is accessed.

Value

The number of tokens in a string or vector of words.

See also

Other token-related functions: tokenize_lst(), transformer_vocab()

Examples

ntokens(x = c("The apple doesn't fall far from the tree."), model = "gpt2")
#> [1] 10