Sentence splitters

Sentence splitters are used to break up text represented as a single string (such as from a text file) into a list of sentences.

The split function

The simplest way to sentence split a text in malti is as follows:

import malti.sent_splitter

text = 'Eżempju ta\' sentenza. Eżempju ta\' sentenza oħra.'
sentences = malti.sent_splitter.split(text)
print(sentences)

['Eżempju ta\' sentenza.', 'Eżempju ta\' sentenza oħra.']

The SentSplitter class

The above is a convenience function that makes use of a default sentence splitter (KMSentSplitter in this version). To gain access to all the features of sentence splitters, they should be used in their class form, for example:

import malti.sent_splitter

splitter = malti.sent_splitter.KMSentSplitter()

text = 'Eżempju ta\' sentenza. Eżempju ta\' sentenza oħra.'
sentences = splitter.split(text)
print(sentences)

['Eżempju ta\' sentenza.', 'Eżempju ta\' sentenza oħra.']

Available sentence splitters

The following sentence splitters are available:

• malti.tokeniser.KMSentSplitter (km_sent_splitter.py): A SentSplitter that is equivalent to the one used to split sentences in the Korpus Malti.