It would be a fair amount of work to remove the nltk dependency, but definitely a useful contribution. I would guess that it would affect metrics (though not sure) to assume that some fixed string marks the end of a sentence.
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  How can I split a text into sentences? 17



  python, text, split



  asked by
  
  
    Artyom
  
  on 10:18PM - 01 Jan 11 UTC