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fix: handle punkt_tab fallback in split_sentences for NLTK >= 3.9 #1023

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fix: try punkt fallback to punkt_tab in split_sentences (NLTK >= 3.9)
danishashko Apr 1, 2026
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fix: add punkt_tab to REQUIRED_CORPORA for NLTK >= 3.9
danishashko Apr 1, 2026
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions download_corpora.py
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REQUIRED_CORPORA = [
'brown', # Required for FastNPExtractor
'punkt', # Required for WordTokenizer
'punkt_tab', # Required for WordTokenizer (NLTK >= 3.9)
'maxent_treebank_pos_tagger', # Required for NLTKTagger
'movie_reviews', # Required for NaiveBayesAnalyzer
'wordnet', # Required for lemmatization and Wordnet
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5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion newspaper/nlp.py
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Expand Up @@ -154,7 +154,10 @@ def split_sentences(text):
"""Split a large string into sentences
"""
import nltk.data
tokenizer = nltk.data.load('tokenizers/punkt/english.pickle')
try:
tokenizer = nltk.data.load('tokenizers/punkt/english.pickle')
except LookupError:
tokenizer = nltk.data.load('tokenizers/punkt_tab/english')

sentences = tokenizer.tokenize(text)
sentences = [x.replace('\n', '') for x in sentences if len(x) > 10]
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