yasserius/bangla-tokenizer

Custom Bangla Tokenizer

A specialized Bangla/Bengali tokenizer extracted from multilingual models and extended with missing characters.

Features

• Focused on Bangla text tokenization
• Support for characters like ঢ় and other missing characters
• Reduced vocabulary size: 21,607 tokens
• Compatible with Hugging Face Transformers

Usage

from transformers import AutoTokenizer

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("yasserius/bangla-tokenizer")

# Tokenize Bangla text
text = "আমি বাংলায় কথা বলি"
tokens = tokenizer.tokenize(text)
print(tokens)

Model Details

• Base model: Extracted from google/muril-base-cased
• Language: Bengali/Bangla
• Vocabulary size: 21,607