>Does Portuguese use abbreviations that end in a dot, like a lot of other >languages do? If so, is there a list of such abbreviations? We could >then add Portuguese to segments.srx to make the sentence splitter work.
Brazilian Portuguese does, and I think the Portugal's Portuguese does as well. I found this list http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Lista_de_abreviaturas. One abbreviation that is very common is Sr., Sra., Prof. (Mr., Mrs., Prof.). Hope that helps, Bruno >________________________________ > From: Daniel Naber <daniel.na...@languagetool.org> >To: LanguageTool Developer List <languagetool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> >Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 2:45 PM >Subject: Portuguese sentence splitter > > >Hi, > >Portuguese uses the SRXSentenceTokenizer, but there's no mapping for >Portuguese in segments.srx. The result is that sentences in Portuguese >are not detected, i.e. everything is one long sentence. Thus the >UppercaseSentenceStartRule never matches except at the very beginning of >a text. > >Does Portuguese use abbreviations that end in a dot, like a lot of other >languages do? If so, is there a list of such abbreviations? We could >then add Portuguese to segments.srx to make the sentence splitter work. > >Regards > Daniel > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. >Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For >Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. >Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. >http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >_______________________________________________ >Languagetool-devel mailing list >Languagetool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/languagetool-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Languagetool-devel mailing list Languagetool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/languagetool-devel
