{"id":575,"date":"2017-07-19T14:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uscictdialdev.wpenginepowered.com\/?page_id=575"},"modified":"2017-07-19T14:00:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T14:00:57","slug":"nltk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dialport.ict.usc.edu\/index.php\/resources\/nlp-toolkits\/nltk\/","title":{"rendered":"NLTK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nltk.org\/\">About<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NLTK is a leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data. It provides easy-to-use interfaces to\u00a0<a class=\"reference external\" href=\"http:\/\/nltk.org\/nltk_data\/\">over 50 corpora and lexical resources<\/a>\u00a0such as WordNet, along with a suite of text processing libraries for classification, tokenization, stemming, tagging, parsing, and semantic reasoning, wrappers for industrial-strength NLP libraries, and an active\u00a0<a class=\"reference external\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/nltk-users\">discussion forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a hands-on guide introducing programming fundamentals alongside topics in computational linguistics, plus comprehensive API documentation, NLTK is suitable for linguists, engineers, students, educators, researchers, and industry users alike. NLTK is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Best of all, NLTK is a free, open source, community-driven project.<\/p>\n<p>NLTK has been called \u201ca wonderful tool for teaching, and working in, computational linguistics using Python,\u201d and \u201can amazing library to play with natural language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"reference external\" href=\"http:\/\/nltk.org\/book\">Natural Language Processing with Python<\/a>\u00a0provides a practical introduction to programming for language processing. Written by the creators of NLTK, it guides the reader through the fundamentals of writing Python programs, working with corpora, categorizing text, analyzing linguistic structure, and more. The book is being updated for Python 3 and NLTK 3. (The original Python 2 version is still available at\u00a0<a class=\"reference external\" href=\"http:\/\/nltk.org\/book_1ed\">http:\/\/nltk.org\/book_1ed<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About &nbsp; NLTK is a leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data. It provides easy-to-use interfaces to\u00a0over 50 corpora and lexical resources\u00a0such as WordNet, along with a suite of text processing libraries for classification, tokenization, stemming, tagging, parsing, and semantic reasoning, wrappers for industrial-strength NLP libraries, and an active\u00a0discussion forum. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"parent":410,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-575","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialport.ict.usc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialport.ict.usc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialport.ict.usc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialport.ict.usc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialport.ict.usc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dialport.ict.usc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/575\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialport.ict.usc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialport.ict.usc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}