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Does Morphological Correctness Matter for Tokenization? A Scrambled Control Study in Tagalog
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arXiv:2610.20859v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Typology-aware tokenizers are motivated by the claim that segmentation which respects morpheme boundaries preserves information that frequency-driven segmentation destroys. Studies routinely establish that it helps while assuming the boundaries must be linguistically correct. We separate them. Tagalog marks voice with infixes (s-um-ulat 'wrote', s-in-ulat 'was written'), so the root is not contiguous and no sequence of BPE merges can recover it. We
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