Many excellent points, Grundle; I could almost say, "a grundle of excellent examples of cases where my preceding post fails horribly.

But -- perhaps my point was not made sufficiently blatant: the OP's requirements are unlikely to be met by any "lightweight" approach or simple algorithm. Either will tend to produce simple minded output.

As a Not_a_Number noted high up in this thread, Lingua::EN::Sentence may be a better choice (your added note regarding training is likely to be helpful to the OP) but unless I've missed something there (certainly possible, as I've only scanned it quickly), dealing with html entities is going to take a lot of extending.

In reply to Re^3: sentence-safe chop heuristics? by ww
in thread sentence-safe chop heuristics? by foomatic99

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