From: Cassio Pennachin <pennachin@...>
Date: 2005-03-08T08:51:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Text chunking?

Claus,

> Again, I was just wondering if something like that already existed for
> Ruby, since that would save me a few days worth of a) Finding a
> chunker in another language, and b) Writing a Ruby wrapper for it. But
> if there isn't, then that's not the end of the world.

You may want to take a look at Lingua::Sentence, at:

http://www.pressure.to/ruby/

I haven't actually used this module, and sentence identification is a
bit tricky.  But Chad Fowler uses it for some fun stuff:

http://www.chadfowler.com/index.cgi/Computing/Programming/Ruby/HaikuInTheWild.rdoc

HTH,
Cassio