"mistokenize" meaning in English

See mistokenize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: mistokenizes [present, singular, third-person], mistokenizing [participle, present], mistokenized [participle, past], mistokenized [past]
Etymology: From mis- + tokenize. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|mis|tokenize}} mis- + tokenize Head templates: {{en-verb}} mistokenize (third-person singular simple present mistokenizes, present participle mistokenizing, simple past and past participle mistokenized)
  1. To tokenize incorrectly. Related terms: mislexicalize, misparse

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "From mis- + tokenize.",
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          "ref": "1994, Mark A. Terribile, Practical C++, page 109:",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Hans-Jörg Schmid, Entrenchment and the Psychology of Language Learning, page 111:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "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:",
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          "ref": "2022, Toni Sivula, Deep Neural Networks in Drug-Target Activity Prediction and Machine Learning Assisted Docking of Ultra-Large Compound Libraries (Master's thesis):",
          "text": "Similarly, all other two-character atomic representations in SMILES are being mistokenized.",
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        "To tokenize incorrectly."
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Hans-Jörg Schmid, Entrenchment and the Psychology of Language Learning, page 111:",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "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:",
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          "type": "quote"
        },
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