From 771774637e64d5fab733e911b1e1aaa08ed7bad7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: yv <versley@cl.uni-heidelberg.de>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 18:57:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Cope with multiple empty lines

setting sentence to null prevents the sentence from being inserted multiple times when there are multiple empty lines instead of just one.
---
 .../src/main/java/de/tu/darmstadt/lt/ner/reader/NERReader.java | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/germaner/src/main/java/de/tu/darmstadt/lt/ner/reader/NERReader.java b/germaner/src/main/java/de/tu/darmstadt/lt/ner/reader/NERReader.java
index 7fae1bf..3cffcaa 100644
--- a/germaner/src/main/java/de/tu/darmstadt/lt/ner/reader/NERReader.java
+++ b/germaner/src/main/java/de/tu/darmstadt/lt/ner/reader/NERReader.java
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ public void process(JCas jcas)
                     }
                     positionIndex = 0;
                 }
+                sentence = null;
                 // init new sentence with the next recognized token
                 initSentence = true;
                 sentenceSb = new StringBuffer();
@@ -288,4 +289,4 @@ public Reader getReader(String aName)
         }
         return null;
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}