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tags:
  - ai
  - speech
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# Text Normalisation
- Tokenisation
	- Labelling parts of sentence
	- Usually words
	- Can be multiple
		- Proper nouns
		- New York
		- Emoticons
		- Hashtags
	- May need some named entity recognition
	- Penn Treebank standard
	- Byte-pair encoding
		- Standard can’t understand unseen words
		- Encode as subwords
			- -est, -er
- Lemmatisation
	- Determining roots of words
	- Verb infinitives
	- Find lemma
		- Derived forms are inflections or inflected
			- Word-forms
	- Critical for morphological complex languages
		- Arabic
- Stemming
	- Simpler than lemmatisation
	- Just removing suffixes
- Normalising word formats
- Segmenting sentences