From 06b05d4575732489e6a1252578d37a2ebdb40273 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luc CAILLIAU <74506016+luccailliau@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 15:06:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify stride option (#22684)

* Clarify stride option

* formatting
---
 src/transformers/pipelines/token_classification.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/transformers/pipelines/token_classification.py b/src/transformers/pipelines/token_classification.py
index 5d0244328c..1a2a96b398 100644
--- a/src/transformers/pipelines/token_classification.py
+++ b/src/transformers/pipelines/token_classification.py
@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ class AggregationStrategy(ExplicitEnum):
             same entity together in the predictions or not.
         stride (`int`, *optional*):
             If stride is provided, the pipeline is applied on all the text. The text is split into chunks of size
-            model_max_length. Works only with fast tokenizers and `aggregation_strategy` different from `NONE`.
+            model_max_length. Works only with fast tokenizers and `aggregation_strategy` different from `NONE`. The
+            value of this argument defines the number of overlapping tokens between chunks.
         aggregation_strategy (`str`, *optional*, defaults to `"none"`):
             The strategy to fuse (or not) tokens based on the model prediction.