[what] Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) In Python

 

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Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a suite of text processing libraries for building Python programs to work with human language data. The tool includes libraries for classification, tokenization, stemming, tagging, parsing, and semantic reasoning etc. NLTK comes along with NLTK Corpora Package, an easy-to-use interfaces to over 50 corpora and lexical resources such as WordNet, VADER Lexicon etc.

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Advantage of NLTK

It is most popular in education and research. It has led to many breakthroughs in text analysis. It has a lot of pre-trained models and corpora which helps us to analyze things very easily. It is an excellent library when you require a specific combination of algorithms. (SoftKraft - NLTK)

Practical uses of NLTK

Some practical uses of NLTK:

1. Accessing Text Corpora and Lexical Resources
2. Processing Raw Text 
3. Categorizing and Tagging Words 
4. Classify Text 
5. Extracting Information from Text 
6. Analyzing Sentence Structure 
7. Building Feature Based Grammars 
8. Analyzing the Meaning of Sentences

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