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Package php-sentence
Short Description Simple text sentence splitting and counting. Supports at least english, german and dutch, possibly more.
License MIT
Homepage https://github.com/vanderlee/php-sentence.git
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Version 1.0.8
Copyright © 2016-2024 Martijn van der Lee (@vanderlee), parts copyright © 2017 @marktaw.
MIT Open Source license applies.
Introduction
PHP natural language sentence segmentation (splitting) and counting. Sentence boundary disambiguation.
Still early, but should support most western languages. If you find any problems, please let me know.
Supports PHP 5.3 and up, so you can use it on older servers.
Installation
Requires PHP 5.4 or greater. PHP 5.3 is supported as long as no more recent features are absolutely necessary.
To install using Composer:
composer require vanderlee/php-sentenceMethods
integer count(string $text)
Counts the number of sentences in the text.
Provided for convenience; this is exactly the same as counting the number of
returned array items from split, so if you need both results, just do that.
array split(string $text,integer $flags = 0)
Splits the text into sentences.
$flags is zero (0, default) or the following class constant:
Sentence::SPLIT_TRIM: Trim whitespace off the left and right sides of each returned sentence.
Documentation
You can find documentation generated from the source code by ApiGen here: ApiGen documentation
Examples
How it works
The method used is not based on any on the established or published methods. It seems to work pretty well, though.
The method follows a number of simple steps in splitting and re-merging the text into full sentences. You can easily check the steps in the code.
Though the splitting may be a bit off, in particular abbreviations at the start of sentences tend to be merged with the preceding sentences. In most ordinary text this should pose no problem. In either case this should not affect the sentence count except in very uncommon situations.
It should be noted that this algorithm depends on reasonably gramatically correct punctuation. Do not L33t-5p3ak!!!!!1!1!11!eleven!!
Rules
The following is a rough list of the rules used to split sentences.
- Each linebreak separates sentences.
- The end of the text indicates the end if a sentence if not otherwise ended through proper punctuation.
- Sentences must be at least two words long, unless a linebreak or end-of-text.
- An empty line is not a sentence.
- Each question- or exclamation mark or combination thereof, is considered the end of a sentence.
- A single period is considered the end of a sentence, unless...
- It is preceded by one word, or...
- It is followed by one word.
- A sequence of multiple periods is not considered the end of a sentence.
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