MediumNLPnlp-019

Sentence Splitter

Problem

Split text into sentences. A sentence ends after a maximal run of '.', '!' or '?' characters; any leftover text at the end is a sentence.

Strip surrounding whitespace and drop empty pieces, but keep the punctuation inside its sentence.

Hint

Track the start of the current sentence and scan for punctuation runs.

case 1

in: ["Hello world. How are you? Fine!"]

expected: ["Hello world.","How are you?","Fine!"]

case 2

in: ["No punctuation here"]

expected: ["No punctuation here"]

case 3

in: [""]

expected: []

case 4

in: ["One. Two.. Three"]

expected: ["One.","Two..","Three"]

case 5

in: ["Wait... really?!"]

expected: ["Wait...","really?!"]

Starter codePython

def sentence_split(text):
    # Your code here
    pass

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