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Replacing spaCy's Sentencizer with yasbd: From 55.4% to 98.9% Accuracy
Sentence segmentation—splitting text into individual sentences—is a foundational step in most NLP pipelines. It seems simple, but as anyone who has worked with real-world text knows, the details matter. Abbreviations like Dr., URLs, ellipsis, and complex punctuation can trip up even well-intentioned rule-based systems.
spaCy's built-in Sentencizer is a fast, lightweight, rule-based component designed for this task. However, by design, it makes a trade-off: speed and simplicity over accuracy o...
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