Using the LingPipe and chunking to perform SBD

Chunking is a technique that breaks up text into units referred to as chunks. The LingPipe libraries contain classes that support SBD. In this recipe, we will demonstrate how to perform SBD using chunking.

Getting ready

To prepare, we need to do the following:

1. Create a new Maven project
2. Add the following dependency to the project's POM file:

<dependency>
    <groupId>de.julielab</groupId>
    <artifactId>aliasi-lingpipe</artifactId>
    <version>4.1.0</version>
</dependency>

How to do it...

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