How to split text into sentences using spaCy

When you are using spaCy to process text, one of the first things you want to do is split the text (paragraph, document etc) into individual sentences.

I will explain how to do that in this tutorial.

First, download and install spaCy

Create a new file in the same project called sentences.py

Add the following code into the sentences.py file

Note: you need to download the en_core_web_sm model first to be able to run the script below

import spacy
nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_sm")
doc = nlp('This is the first sentence. This is the second sentence.')
for sent in doc.sents:
    print(sent)

Run the Python script.

Here is what you will see in the output.

As you can see, the paragraph has been split into the two sentences.

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