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Natural Language Processing with Java
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Natural Language Processing with Java

by Richard M. Reese, Richard M Reese
March 2015
Beginner to intermediate
262 pages
5h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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Understanding SBD rules of LingPipe's HeuristicSentenceModel class

There are other rules that can be used to perform SBD. LingPipe's HeuristicSentenceModel class uses a series of token rules to perform SBD. We will present them here, as they provide insight into what rules can be useful.

This class uses three sets of tokens and two flags to assist in the process:

  • Possible Stops: This is a set of tokens that can be the last token of a sentence
  • Impossible Penultimates: These tokens cannot be the second to last token in a sentence
  • Impossible Starts: This is a set of tokens that cannot be used to start a sentence
  • Balance Parentheses: This flag indicates that a sentence should not be terminated until all matching parentheses are matched in that sentence ...
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ISBN: 9781784391799