Description

Custom sentence segmentation for spacy.

pip install spacyss

Tested on spacy 2.0.5

Segmenters Implemented

Newline Segmenter

sentences in text are separated by one or more newline characters.

Example

from seg.newline.segmenter import NewLineSegmenter  # note that pip package is called spacyss
import spacy

nlseg = NewLineSegmenter()

nlp = spacy.load('en')
nlp.add_pipe(nlseg.set_sent_starts, name='sentence_segmenter', before='parser')

doc = nlp(my_doc_text)

Single Sentence (or "Trivial") Segmenter

the text is treated as a single sentence. may be better for tweets or other short informal texts where over segmentation may cause more problems than undersegmentation.

Implementing more segmenters

• create package under seg named for your sentence segmentation approach
• create segmenter.py under that package
• create a class for your segmenter with a method called set_sent_starts that takes a doc as the single argument.
  • It may be that spacy api allows for more flexible argument profile here, feel free to correct...