Your tokenizer shreds domain terms into meaningless subwords. How do you fix it?

When a drug name or a Hindi word becomes nine subword tokens, you pay in cost, context, and accuracy. Adding tokens is easy and adding them well is not. Here is the tradeoff.

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When a drug name or a Hindi word becomes nine subword tokens, you pay in cost, context, and accuracy. Adding tokens is easy and adding them well is not. Here is the tradeoff.

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