Tokenizer
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Tokenizer #

Tokenizer is an algorithm that converts the input string to lowercase and then splits it by white spaces.

Input Columns #

Param name Type Default Description
inputCol String "input" Strings to be tokenized.

Output Columns #

Param name Type Default Description
outputCol String[] "output" Tokenized strings.

Parameters #

Key Default Type Required Description
inputCol "input" String no Input column name.
outputCol "output" String no Output column name.

Examples #


import org.apache.flink.ml.feature.tokenizer.Tokenizer;
import org.apache.flink.streaming.api.datastream.DataStream;
import org.apache.flink.streaming.api.environment.StreamExecutionEnvironment;
import org.apache.flink.table.api.Table;
import org.apache.flink.table.api.bridge.java.StreamTableEnvironment;
import org.apache.flink.types.Row;
import org.apache.flink.util.CloseableIterator;

import java.util.Arrays;

/** Simple program that creates a Tokenizer instance and uses it for feature engineering. */
public class TokenizerExample {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		StreamExecutionEnvironment env = StreamExecutionEnvironment.getExecutionEnvironment();
		StreamTableEnvironment tEnv = StreamTableEnvironment.create(env);

		// Generates input data.
		DataStream<Row> inputStream =
			env.fromElements(Row.of("Test for tokenization."), Row.of("Te,st. punct"));
		Table inputTable = tEnv.fromDataStream(inputStream).as("input");

		// Creates a Tokenizer object and initializes its parameters.
		Tokenizer tokenizer = new Tokenizer().setInputCol("input").setOutputCol("output");

		// Uses the Tokenizer object for feature transformations.
		Table outputTable = tokenizer.transform(inputTable)[0];

		// Extracts and displays the results.
		for (CloseableIterator<Row> it = outputTable.execute().collect(); it.hasNext(); ) {
			Row row = it.next();

			String inputValue = (String) row.getField(tokenizer.getInputCol());
			String[] outputValues = (String[]) row.getField(tokenizer.getOutputCol());

			System.out.printf(
				"Input Value: %s \tOutput Values: %s\n",
				inputValue, Arrays.toString(outputValues));
		}
	}
}

# Simple program that creates a Tokenizer instance and uses it for feature
# engineering.

from pyflink.common import Types
from pyflink.datastream import StreamExecutionEnvironment
from pyflink.ml.feature.tokenizer import Tokenizer
from pyflink.table import StreamTableEnvironment

env = StreamExecutionEnvironment.get_execution_environment()

t_env = StreamTableEnvironment.create(env)

# Generates input data.
input_data_table = t_env.from_data_stream(
    env.from_collection([
        ('Test for tokenization.',),
        ('Te,st. punct',),
    ],
        type_info=Types.ROW_NAMED(
            ['input'],
            [Types.STRING()])))

# Creates a Tokenizer object and initializes its parameters.
tokenizer = Tokenizer() \
    .set_input_col("input") \
    .set_output_col("output")

# Uses the Tokenizer object for feature transformations.
output = tokenizer.transform(input_data_table)[0]

# Extracts and displays the results.
field_names = output.get_schema().get_field_names()
for result in t_env.to_data_stream(output).execute_and_collect():
    input_value = result[field_names.index(tokenizer.get_input_col())]
    output_value = result[field_names.index(tokenizer.get_output_col())]
    print('Input Value: ' + str(input_value) + '\tOutput Values: ' + str(output_value))