NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) is a powerful library for Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python. It provides easy-to-use interfaces to over 50 corpora, 200+ trained models, and a variety of text processing tasks like tokenization, stemming, lemmatization, and sentiment analysis.
🧰 Key Features
- Pre-built Corpora: Access to datasets like the Brown Corpus, Reuters Corpus, and more.
- Tokenization Tools: Split text into words, sentences, or subwords.
- Machine Learning Models: Includes classifiers for tasks like part-of-speech tagging and named entity recognition.
- Language Processing Utilities: Support for stemming (e.g., PorterStemmer), lemmatization, and semantic similarity.
🚀 Quick Start
- Install NLTK:
pip install nltk
- Download Corpora:
import nltk nltk.download('punkt') nltk.download('averaged_perceptron_tagger')
- Basic Usage:
from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize text = "NLTK is a leading platform for building Python programs." tokens = word_tokenize(text) print(tokens)