From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-11-30T21:51:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Splitting a text file into sentences

On 11/29/05, Kevin Olbrich <kevin.olbrich@duke.edu> wrote:
> Depending on the text you might be able to search for a period (or other
> punctuation) followed by two spaces.  It's not robust, but if you know that
> convention will be followed by the authors, then it can work.

That, in fact, is a very *bad* metric to follow, as the proper spacing
after sentence punctuation is a single space. The only reason that two
spaces was used in the past is the space used between sentence endings
in typeset work is a little wider than that used between words (an
em-space vs. an en-space).

-austin
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