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| |
| |
| package opennlp.tools.sentdetect; |
| |
| import opennlp.tools.util.Span; |
| |
| /** |
| * The interface for sentence detectors, which find the sentence boundaries in |
| * a text. |
| */ |
| public interface SentenceDetector { |
| |
| /** |
| * Sentence detect a string. |
| * |
| * @param s The string to be sentence detected. |
| * @return The String[] with the individual sentences as the array |
| * elements. |
| */ |
| String[] sentDetect(String s); |
| |
| /** |
| * Sentence detect a string. |
| * |
| * @param s The string to be sentence detected. |
| * |
| * @return The Span[] with the spans (offsets into s) for each |
| * detected sentence as the individuals array elements. |
| */ |
| Span[] sentPosDetect(String s); |
| } |