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fix for word_tokenize() Failing to Split English Contractions When Followed by [\t\n\f\r] #3224

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Expand Up @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ class NLTKWordTokenizer(TokenizerI):
(re.compile("([»”’])", re.U), r" \1 "),
(re.compile(r"''"), " '' "),
(re.compile(r'"'), " '' "),
(re.compile(r"\s+"), " "),
(re.compile(r"([^' ])('[sS]|'[mM]|'[dD]|') "), r"\1 \2 "),
(re.compile(r"([^' ])('ll|'LL|'re|'RE|'ve|'VE|n't|N'T) "), r"\1 \2 "),
]
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