Text normalization

Filter tokens. Strip unigrams and vgrams.

Two helpers control how text becomes features.

TextFilter(text)

Used on tokens (words).

Step	Rule
1	Lowercase
2	Remove characters outside the allowed set

Allowed characters include letters, digits, common punctuation, and space.

TextFilter("Hello, World!"); // "hello, world!"
TextFilter("A-B_C");         // "a-b_c"

TextStrip(text)

Used on unigrams and vgrams.

Step	Rule
1	Run TextFilter
2	Keep letters and digits only (drop spaces and punctuation)

TextStrip("Hello, World!"); // "helloworld"
TextStrip("foo-bar baz 123"); // "foobarbaz123"

When each runs

Feature type	Helper	normalize: false
Token	TextFilter	Raw split words
Unigram	TextStrip	Raw tokens
Vgram	TextStrip on joined window	Raw joined window

Set normalize: false in Create() or Tokenize() to skip both helpers.

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