package Lingua::Sentence; use 5.008008; use strict; use warnings; use Carp qw(croak); use File::ShareDir 'dist_dir'; our $VERSION = '1.04'; # Preloaded methods go here. sub new { ref(my $class= shift) and croak "Class name needed"; my $langid = shift; if($langid !~ /^[a-z][a-z]$/) { croak "Invalid language id: $langid"; } my $prefixfile = shift; # Try loading nonbreaking prefix file specified in constructor my $dir = dist_dir('Lingua-Sentence'); if(defined($prefixfile)) { if(!(-e $prefixfile)) { print STDERR "WARNING: Specified prefix file '$prefixfile' does not exist, attempting fall-back to $langid version...\n"; $prefixfile = "$dir/nonbreaking_prefix.$langid"; } } else { $prefixfile = "$dir/nonbreaking_prefix.$langid"; } my %NONBREAKING_PREFIX; #default back to English if we don't have a language-specific prefix file if (!(-e $prefixfile)) { $prefixfile = "$dir/nonbreaking_prefix.en"; print STDERR "WARNING: No known abbreviations for language '$langid', attempting fall-back to English version...\n"; die ("ERROR: No abbreviations files found in $dir\n") unless (-e $prefixfile); } if (-e "$prefixfile") { open(PREFIX, "<:utf8", "$prefixfile"); while () { my $item = $_; chomp($item); if (($item) && (substr($item,0,1) ne "#")) { if ($item =~ /(.*)[\s]+(\#NUMERIC_ONLY\#)/) { $NONBREAKING_PREFIX{$1} = 2; } else { $NONBREAKING_PREFIX{$item} = 1; } } } close(PREFIX); } my $self = { LangID => $langid, Nonbreaking => \%NONBREAKING_PREFIX }; bless $self,$class; return $self; } sub split { my $self = shift; if(!ref $self) { return "Unnamed $self"; } my $text = shift; if(!$text) { return ''; } return _preprocess($self,$text); } sub split_array { my $self = shift; if(!ref $self) { return "Unnamed $self"; } my $text = shift; if(!$text) { return (); } my $splittext = _preprocess($self,$text); chomp $splittext; return split(/\n/,$splittext); } sub _preprocess { my ($self,$text) = @_; #####add sentence breaks as needed##### #non-period end of sentence markers (?!) followed by sentence starters. $text =~ s/([?!]) +([\'\"\(\[\¿\¡\p{IsPi}]*[\p{IsUpper}])/$1\n$2/g; #multi-dots followed by sentence starters $text =~ s/(\.[\.]+) +([\'\"\(\[\¿\¡\p{IsPi}]*[\p{IsUpper}])/$1\n$2/g; # add breaks for sentences that end with some sort of punctuation inside a quote or parenthetical and are followed by a possible sentence starter punctuation and upper case $text =~ s/([?!\.][\ ]*[\'\"\)\]\p{IsPf}]+) +([\'\"\(\[\¿\¡\p{IsPi}]*[\ ]*[\p{IsUpper}])/$1\n$2/g; # add breaks for sentences that end with some sort of punctuation are followed by a sentence starter punctuation and upper case $text =~ s/([?!\.]) +([\'\"\(\[\¿\¡\p{IsPi}]+[\ ]*[\p{IsUpper}])/$1\n$2/g; # special punctuation cases are covered. Check all remaining periods. my $word; my $i; my @words = split(/ +/,$text); $text = ""; for ($i=0;$i<(scalar(@words)-1);$i++) { if ($words[$i] =~ /([\p{IsAlnum}\.\-]*)([\'\"\)\]\%\p{IsPf}]*)(\.+)$/) { #check if $1 is a known honorific and $2 is empty, never break my $prefix = $1; my $starting_punct = $2; if($prefix && $self->{Nonbreaking}{$prefix} && $self->{Nonbreaking}{$prefix} == 1 && !$starting_punct) { #not breaking; } elsif ($words[$i] =~ /(\.)[\p{IsUpper}\-]+(\.+)$/) { #not breaking - upper case acronym } elsif($words[$i+1] =~ /^([ ]*[\'\"\(\[\¿\¡\p{IsPi}]*[ ]*[\p{IsUpper}0-9])/) { #the next word has a bunch of initial quotes, maybe a space, then either upper case or a number $words[$i] = $words[$i]."\n" unless ($prefix && $self->{Nonbreaking}{$prefix} && $self->{Nonbreaking}{$prefix} == 2 && !$starting_punct && ($words[$i+1] =~ /^[0-9]+/)); #we always add a return for these unless we have a numeric non-breaker and a number start } } $text = $text.$words[$i]." "; } #we stopped one token from the end to allow for easy look-ahead. Append it now. $text = $text.$words[$i]; # clean up spaces at head and tail of each line as well as any double-spacing $text =~ s/ +/ /g; $text =~ s/\n /\n/g; $text =~ s/ \n/\n/g; $text =~ s/^ //g; $text =~ s/ $//g; #add trailing break $text .= "\n" unless $text =~ /\n$/; return $text; } 1; __END__ =head1 NAME Lingua::Sentence - Perl extension for breaking text paragraphs into sentences =head1 SYNOPSIS use Lingua::Sentence; my $splitter = Lingua::Sentence->new("en"); my $text = 'This is a paragraph. It contains several sentences. "But why," you ask?'; print $splitter->split($text); =head1 DESCRIPTION This module allows splitting of text paragraphs into sentences. It is based on scripts developed by Philipp Koehn and Josh Schroeder for processing the Europarl corpus (L). The module uses punctuation and capitalization clues to split paragraphs into an newline-separated string with one sentence per line. For example: This is a paragraph. It contains several sentences. "But why," you ask? goes to: This is a paragraph. It contains several sentences. "But why," you ask? Languages currently supported by the module are: =over =item Catalan =item Czech =item Dutch =item English =item French =item German =item Greek =item Hungarian =item Icelandic =item Italian =item Latvian =item Polish =item Portuguese =item Russian =item Spanish =item Slovak =item Slovenian =item Swedish =back =head2 Nonbreaking Prefixes Files Nonbreaking prefixes are loosely defined as any word ending in a period that does NOT indicate an end of sentence marker. A basic example is Mr. and Ms. in English. The sentence splitter module uses the nonbreaking prefix files included in this distribution. To add a file for other languages, follow the naming convention nonbreaking_prefix.?? and use the two-letter language code you intend to use when creating a Lingua::Sentence object. The sentence splitter module will first look for a file for the language it is processing, and fall back to English if a file for that language is not found. For the splitter, normally a period followed by an uppercase word results in a sentence split. If the word preceeding the period is a nonbreaking prefix, this line break is not inserted. A special case of prefixes, NUMERIC_ONLY, is included for special cases where the prefix should be handled ONLY when before numbers. For example, "Article No. 24 states this." the No. is a nonbreaking prefix. However, in "No. It is not true." No functions as a word. See the example prefix files included in the distribution for more examples. =head3 CREDITS Thanks for the following individuals for supplying nonbreaking prefix files: Bas Rozema (Dutch), HilErio Leal Fontes (Portuguese), JesEs GimEnez (Catalan & Spanish) =head2 EXPORT =over =item new($lang_id) Instantiate an object to split sentences in language $lang_id. If the language is not supported, a splitter object for English will be instantiated. =item new($lang_id,$nonbreaking_prefix_file) Instantiate an object to split sentences in language $lang_id and the nonbreaking prefix file $nonbreaking_prefix_file. If the file does not exist, a splitter object for English will be instantiated. =item split($text) Split sentences in $text by inserting newline characters at the sentence breaks. The resulting string is also terminated with a newline. =item split_array($text) Split sentences in $text into an array of sentences. =back =head1 SUPPORT Bugs should always be submitted via the project hosting bug tracker L For other issues, contact the maintainer. =head1 SEE ALSO L, L, L, L =head1 AUTHOR Achim Ruopp, Eachimru@gmail.comE =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright (C) 2010 by Digital Silk Road Portions Copyright (C) 2005 by Philip Koehn and Josh Schroeder (used with permission) This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see . =cut