Many NLP processes require splitting a large amount of text into sentences. This may seem to be a simple task, but for computers it can be problematic. A simple sentence splitter can look just for periods (.), or use other algorithms such as predictive classifiers. We will examine two means of sentence splitting with NLTK.
Performing sentence splitting
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