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I think you're significantly underestimating how many words could be retokenized into multiple words even before considering how concatenation affects things.
by thfuran 3y ago
I think you're significantly underestimating how many words could be retokenized into multiple words even before considering how concatenation affects things. For example: Concatenate is a word, but so are con, catenate, cat, and enate. Yes, no two of those are likely to be used in sequence, but I don't think that's a very reliable rule overall—"a" and "an" are both common words and negative prefixes.
- GTP 3y agoMaybe you're right. I was biased by my native language, which doesn't have the a/an problem that English has.