2.3.0-rc1

Release 2.3.0-rc1

Major Features and Improvements

• Added UnicodeCharacterTokenizer

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• oss-segmenter:
  • fix end-offset error in split_merge_tokenizer_kernel.
• TensorFlow text python ops wordshape:
  • More comprehensive emoji handling
• Other:
  • Unref lookup_table in wordpiece_kernel fixing a possible memory leak.
  • Add missing LICENSE file for third_party/tensorflow_text/core/kernels.
  • add normalize kernals test
  • Add some metric logs to tokenizers.
  • Fix documentation formatting for SplitMergeTokenizer
  • Bug fix: make sure tokenize() method does not ignore itself.
  • Improve logging efficiency.
  • Update tf.text's regression test model for model server. Without the asserts, errors are erroneously swallowed by tensorflow. I also added tf.unicode_script test just to ensure that ICU is working correctly from within model server.
  • Add the ability to define a user-defined destination directory to make testing easier.
  • Fix typo in documentation of BertTokenizer
  • Clarify docstring of UnicodeScriptTokenizer about splitting on space
  • Add executable flag to the run_build.sh script.
  • Clarify docstring of WordpieceTokenizer on unknown_token:
  • Update protobuf library and point HEAD to build on tf 2.3.0-rc0

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