JavaSentenceSegmenter.scala

package epic.preprocess

/*
 Copyright 2009 David Hall, Daniel Ramage

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import java.text.BreakIterator
import java.util.Locale
import epic.slab._
import epic.slab.Token
import epic.slab.Sentence

/**
 * A Sentence Segmenter backed by Java's BreakIterator.
 * Given an input string, it will return an iterator over sentences
 *
 * @author dlwh
 */
class JavaSentenceSegmenter(locale: Locale = Locale.getDefault) extends SentenceSegmenter {

  override def apply[In](slab: StringSlab[In]): StringSlab[In with Sentence] = {
    val breaker = BreakIterator.getSentenceInstance(locale)
    breaker.setText(slab.content)
    slab.addLayer[Sentence](
      new SegmentingIterator(breaker).map { span =>
        span -> Sentence()
      }
    )
  }

}

object JavaSentenceSegmenter extends JavaSentenceSegmenter(Locale.getDefault)