Question

I’ve installed the latest version of the stanfordparser and the ruby wrapper library for it. When trying to test it with a simple example from the website:

vi test.rb:

require "stanfordparser"

preproc =
StanfordParser::DocumentPreprocessor.new
puts
preproc.getSentencesFromString("This
is a sentence.  So is this.")

ruby -rubygems test.rb

This
is
a
sentence
.
So
is
this
.

This is a sanity check really – am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug in the parser or wrapper?

Answer 1

You might be confused about how puts is formatting the output. Try this:

x = preproc.getSentencesFromString("This is a sentence. So is this.")
puts x.inspect

to make sure that you’re getting what you’re supposed to be getting.