tok is a Byte Pair Encoding tokenizer used for splitting text into tokens which can then be encoded into ids.

• Custom string normalization
• Easy to use API for interacting with text tokenization
• Serializable vocabulary and merge rules

tok uses utf8proc for normalizing strings and cereal for serializing, you can also install them through your package manager.

Using a debian based distro:

apt install libutf8proc-dev libcereal-dev

1. Clone the repository with git clone https://github.com/M3nny/tok
2. Run make inside the cloned repository, it will create a build directory with the static library
3. Include it in you project (you also have to link utf8proc)

g++ -std=c++11 -c program.cpp -o program.o
g++ -std=c++11 program.o -o program -L path_to/tok/build -l tok -l utf8proc

#include <vector>
#include "tok.hpp"

int main() {
    tok tokenizer;
    tokenizer.load("pretrained/eng_adjectives_adverbs_30k.bin");
    std::string str = "i've just bought a melon!";

    std::vector<std::string> tokenized_str = tokenizer.tokenize(str);
    // ["i", "'", "ve", "Ķjust", "Ķbought", "Ķa", "Ķmel", "on", "!", "<|eot|>"]

    return 0;
}