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Choosing a Python Sentence Boundary Detection Library
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A high-accuracy, rule-based Sentence Boundary Detector (SBD) with a drop-in adapter for pysbd, delivering faster and more accurate segmentation.
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yasbd-lib is a fast, streaming-first Python sentence splitter that avoids text-mutation bugs to preserve exact spans, whereas pysbd is a mature, widely used rule-based splitter that is stable but largely unmaintained upstream.