@chirrapp/sbd

Sentence boundary detection

The library is a fork of @Tessmore's sbd. Unlike the original version, the fork's focused on a single use case and removes extra options.

Split text into sentences with the vanilla strategy (i.e working ~95% of the time).

• Split a text based on period, question- and exclamation marks.
• Skips (most) abbreviations (Mr., Mrs., PhD.)
• Skips numbers/currency.
• Skips urls, websites, email addresses, phone nr.
• Counts ellipsis and ?! as single punctuation.

Installation

The library is available as an npm package published at the GitHub Registry. To install @chirrapp/sbd run:

npm install @chirrapp/sbd --save
# Or using Yarn:
yarn add @chirrapp/sbd

Using

import { sentences } from "@chirrapp/sbd";

sentences(
  "On Jan. 20, former Sen. Barack Obama became the 44th President of the U.S. Millions attended the Inauguration."
);
//=> [
//=>   "On Jan. 20, former Sen. Barack Obama became the 44th President of the U.S.",
//=>   "Millions attended the Inauguration.",
//=> ]

License

MIT © Fabiën Tesselaar

Changelog

2.1.0 - 2021-10-06

Changed

• The code performance was optimized.

• Improved support for non-latin texts.