Sentence Utilities

split_sentences(text: str) → list[str]

Split text into sentences, protecting scientific abbreviations.

Strategy: temporarily replace abbreviation dots with a placeholder, split on [.!?] followed by whitespace + uppercase/bracket, then restore the placeholder.

Parameters:

text – Plain text to split.

Returns:

Non-empty sentence strings.

Return type:

list[str]

Examples

>>> split_sentences("As shown in Fig. 3, the yield is high. See also Fig. 4.")
['As shown in Fig. 3, the yield is high.', 'See also Fig. 4.']