tokenizer基本含义
tokenizer就是分词器; 只不过在bert里和我们理解的中文分词不太一样,主要不是分词方法的问题,bert里基本都是最大匹配方法。

最大的不同在于“词”的理解和定义。 比如:中文基本是字为单位。
英文则是subword的概念,例如将”unwanted”分解成[“un”, “##want”, “##ed”] 请仔细理解这个做法的优点。
这是tokenizer的一个要义。

bert里涉及的tokenizer
BasicTokenzer
主要的类是BasicTokenizer,做一些基础的大小写、unicode转换、标点符号分割、小写转换、中文字符分割、去除重音符号等操作,最后返回的是关于词的数组(中文是字的数组)
 

 def tokenize(self, text):"""Tokenizes a piece of text."""text = convert_to_unicode(text)text = self._clean_text(text)# This was added on November 1st, 2018 for the multilingual and Chinese# models. This is also applied to the English models now, but it doesn't# matter since the English models were not trained on any Chinese data# and generally don't have any Chinese data in them (there are Chinese# characters in the vocabulary because Wikipedia