| Original author(s) | Steven Bird, Edward Loper, Ewan Klein |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Team NLTK |
| Initial release | 2001[1] |
| Stable release | 3.5 / 13 April 2020[2] |
| Repository |  |
| Written in | Python |
| Type | Natural language processing |
| License | Apache 2.0[3] |
| Website | www |
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The Natural Language Toolkit, or more commonly NLTK, is a suite of libraries and programs for symbolic and statistical natural language processing (NLP) for English written in the Python programming language. It was developed by Steven Bird and Edward Loper in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania.[4] 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. There are 32 universities in the US and 25 countries using NLTK in their courses. NLTK supports classification, tokenization, stemming, tagging, parsing, and semantic reasoning functionalities.[8]
Library highlights
- Lexical analysis: Word and text tokenizer
- n-gram and collocations
- Part-of-speech tagger
- Tree model and Text chunker for capturing
- Named-entity recognition
See also
- SpaCy
References
- ^ "Project site on SourceForge". 9 July 2001.
- ^ "NLTK ChangeLog". nltk.org. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
- ^ "NLTK License". NLTK Project. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
- ^ "Preface". www.nltk.org. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
- ^ Bird, Steven; Klein, Ewan; Loper, Edward (2009). Natural Language Processing with Python. O'Reilly Media Inc. ISBN 978-0-596-51649-9.
- ^ Perkins, Jacob (2010). Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook. Packt Publishing. ISBN 978-1849513609.
- ^ Bird, Steven; Klein, Ewan; Loper, Edward; Baldridge, Jason (2008). "Multidisciplinary instruction with the Natural Language Toolkit" (PDF). Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics, ACL. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 September 2011.
- ^ "NLTK Courses". Google Docs. Retrieved 15 June 2016.