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Expanding contractions

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Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
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35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Open tokenizer.py and locate the entries for "gonna" and "wanna". Compare their current expansions with the suggested phrases, then verify that tokenization produces the intended words for both contractions; the issue is done when these mappings no longer split them into incorrect fragments.

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Description

In tokenizer.py,

      "gonna" : "gon na",
      "wanna" : "wan na"

I suggest changing this to:

      "gonna" : "going to",
      "wanna" : "want to"

Cheers,
Dave

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