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Explain Tokenization in NLP

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You are working with text data for an NLP model, and the first step is to convert raw text into tokens the model can process. The input may include punctuation, numbers, product names, and mixed casing, so the tokenization choice affects both vocabulary size and model behavior.

Question

What is tokenization?