Natural Language Toolkit

Natural Language Toolkit
Original author(s) Steven Bird, Edward Loper, Ewan Klein
Developer(s) Team NLTK
Initial release 2001[1]
Stable release 3.0.2 / 13 March 2015[2]
Preview release 3.0b2 / 21 August 2014[3]
Written in Python
Type Natural language processing
License Apache 2.0[4]
Website nltk.org
Parse tree generated with NLTK

The Natural Language Toolkit, or more commonly NLTK, is a suite of libraries and programs for symbolic and statistical natural language processing (NLP) for the Python programming language. NLTK includes graphical demonstrations and sample data. It is accompanied by a book that explains the underlying concepts behind the language processing tasks supported by the toolkit,[5] plus a cookbook.[6]

NLTK is intended to support research and teaching in NLP or closely related areas, including empirical linguistics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, and machine learning.[7] NLTK has been used successfully as a teaching tool, as an individual study tool, and as a platform for prototyping and building research systems.

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References

  1. ↑ project site on SourceForge; registered:2001-07-09
  2. ↑ "NLTK ChangeLog". nltk.org. Retrieved 2015-03-13.
  3. ↑ "NLTK News". nltk.org. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  4. ↑ "NLTK License". NLTK Project. Retrieved 2015-02-14.
  5. ↑ Bird, Steven; Klein, Ewan; Loper, Edward (2009). Natural Language Processing with Python. O'Reilly Media Inc. ISBN 0-596-51649-5.
  6. ↑ Perkins, Jacob (2010). Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook. Packt Publishing. ISBN 1849513600.
  7. ↑ Bird, Steven; Klein, Ewan; Loper, Edward; Baldridge, Jason (2008). "Multidisciplinary instruction with the Natural Language Toolkit". Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics, ACL.

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