In a technical blog post introducing a new language model, the author writes: 'For simplicity in this overview, we will treat 'words' and 'tokens' as interchangeable units of text.' What is the most accurate interpretation of the author's statement?
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In a technical blog post introducing a new language model, the author writes: 'For simplicity in this overview, we will treat 'words' and 'tokens' as interchangeable units of text.' What is the most accurate interpretation of the author's statement?
In the context of language modeling, the terms 'word' and 'token' are often used interchangeably because a token is always equivalent to a single, complete word.