Text Glossary

Browse 10 text terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

10 Text Terms

ASCII Art
Images or decorative text arrangements created using ASCII characters rather than graphical tools. ASCII art has deep roots in hacker and internet culture as a...
Character Set
A defined collection of characters and their encoded representations used in text processing, such as ASCII or Unicode encodings. Character set mismatches can...
Parse
To analyze a string of symbols — source code, JSON, HTML, or any structured text — according to a formal grammar, converting it into a structured...
Regex
Regular Expression -- a pattern language for matching, searching, and manipulating text. Supported by virtually every programming language and tool (grep, sed,...
String
A data type representing an ordered sequence of characters, used to store and manipulate text, with encoding details (UTF-8, UTF-16) varying by language and...
Text Chunking
The process of splitting text into smaller segments for indexing, retrieval, summarization, or model input. Text chunking affects what context is preserved and...
Text Processing
The preparation, transformation, and analysis of text for use in AI systems, including cleaning, tokenization, normalization, extraction, and formatting. Good...
Text Splitter
A tool or component that splits text into segments according to rules such as length, sentence boundaries, structure, or semantic units. Text splitters are...
Unicode
A universal character encoding standard that assigns a unique code point to every character in every writing system -- 154,000+ characters across 168 scripts....
UTF-8
A variable-width character encoding that represents every Unicode code point using one to four bytes, designed to be backward-compatible with ASCII (all valid...

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