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Samson Tan

Samson Tan has 2 papers in our library, in 2021–2023, most of them on Tokenization & segmentation; often with Arun Raja, Benoît Sagot, Chenglei Si.

2 papers in our library · 2021–2023

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 9 · 25 works · 1,003 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 226 citations in our library · 2 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Star rank #3915

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 Affiliations

🏢AmazonSeattle · United States2022–2024 · 8 papers🎓National University of SingaporeSingapore · Singapore2020–2022 · 7 papers🎓Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore · Singapore2020–2021 · 4 papers🏢SalesforceSan Francisco · United States2020–2022 · 3 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

 Topics

 Tokenization & segmentation (1)

 Works by year

2020s

20231 paper20211 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Between words and characters: A Brief History of Open-Vocabulary Modeling and Tokenization in NLP (2021 · 89 citations)
    This is a survey paper by the BigScience Workshop tokenization working group. The authors examine which units of text NLP models should operate on: words, subwords, characters, bytes, or even pixels. The paper offers no new data and no method of its own. Instead, it connects research from the pre-neural and neural…
  2. NL-Augmenter: A Framework for Task-Sensitive Natural Language Augmentation (2023 · 84 citations)
    Data augmentation is used both to stress-test NLP models and to make their training data more diverse. Most existing perturbation tools offer a narrow, largely English set of edits that are rarely matched to a specific task. NL-Augmenter addresses this with an open, community-built Python library. It grew out of the…

Also in our library

2 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them.

 Co-authors here

12 of 14 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 226 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); 29 citing papers with a page here →.

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