tokenization
This term is highly technical and varies significantly across different professional domains. In linguistics and computer science, it refers to the structural decomposition of text, whereas in cybersecurity and finance, it describes a security measure to mask sensitive data. In the context of blockchain and fintech, it refers to the creation of digital representations of assets.
Because it describes a process or a conceptual method, the word is used as an uncountable noun. It does not refer to a single instance of a token being created, but rather to the systemic procedure of tokenization itself.
Meanings
The process of breaking a sequence of text, such as a sentence or a document, into smaller units called tokens, such as words or phrases, typically for use in natural language processing.
The first step in the pipeline is the tokenization of the raw input text.