"""Example of adding a pipeline component to prohibit sentence boundaries before certain tokens. What we do is write to the token.is_sent_start attribute, which takes values in {True, False, None}. The default value None allows the parser to predict sentence segments. The value False prohibits the parser from inserting a sentence boundary before that token. Note that fixing the sentence segmentation should also improve the parse quality. The specific example here is drawn from https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/issues/2627 Other versions of the model may not make the original mistake, so the specific example might not be apt for future versions. """ import plac import spacy def prevent_sentence_boundaries(doc): for token in doc: if not can_be_sentence_start(token): token.is_sent_start = False return doc def can_be_sentence_start(token): if token.i == 0: return True elif token.is_title: return True elif token.nbor(-1).is_punct: return True elif token.nbor(-1).is_space: return True else: return False def main(): nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_lg") raw_text = "Been here and I'm loving it." doc = nlp(raw_text) sentences = [sent.string.strip() for sent in doc.sents] print(sentences) nlp.add_pipe(prevent_sentence_boundaries, before="parser") doc = nlp(raw_text) sentences = [sent.string.strip() for sent in doc.sents] print(sentences) if __name__ == "__main__": plac.call(main)