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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with awk regular expression for RS record separator Post 303001637 by 1Brajesh on Tuesday 8th of August 2017 10:00:59 AM

08-08-2017

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Hi Don,

Thank you for your detailed reply and examples of RS expressions.
You are correct, I would need to consider all the other abbreviations as well.

I'm using these sentences for training a neural net.

The training corpus would be classic books like Pride and Prejudice from project Gutenberg for example : Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - Free Ebook

Looking at this example above:

-Not all sentences end on a newline.
-There aren't two spaces after the end of a sentence
-The reason I'm considering : and ; because even though they are not complete sentences, they are in "general" complete "thoughts" and as such I can approximate them as complete sentences and reduce the complexity of the neural net.

I think the simplest solution for me seems to be to do massage the input file and do a search and replace all of the exceptions as itkamaraj suggested.

If by looking at this text example you might have another suggestion please let me know.

thank you all !

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style(1)						      General Commands Manual							  style(1)

NAME

       style - Analyzes surface characteristics of a document.

SYNOPSIS

       style [-ml] [-mm] [-a] [-e] [-l num] [-r num] [-p] [-P] file...

OPTIONS

       Displays  all  sentences  with their length and readability index.  Displays all sentences that begin with an expletive.  Displays all sen-
       tences longer than num.	Skips lists in the document.  Overrides the default -ms macro package.	Displays parts of speech of the  words	in
       the document.  Displays all sentences that contain a passive verb.  Displays all sentences whose readability index is greater than num.

DESCRIPTION

       The  style command analyzes the surface characteristics of the writing style of a document.  It reports on readability, sentence length and
       structure, word length and usage, verb type, and sentence openers. Because style runs deroff before looking at the text, formatting  header
       files should be included as part of the input.  The default macro package -ms may be overridden with the -mm option.  The -ml option, which
       causes deroff to skip lists, should be used if the document contains many lists that contain non-sentences. Use the other options to locate
       sentences with certain characteristics.

RESTRICTIONS

       Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause incorrect sentence breaks.

SEE ALSO

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