The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data. It provides easy-to-use interfaces to over 50 corpora and lexical resources such as WordNet, along with a suite of text processing libraries for tokenization, parsing, classification, stemming, tagging, and semantic reasoning, wrappers for industrial-strength NLP libraries, and an active discussion forum.
Main Features and Capabilities:
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Corpora and Lexical Resources: NLTK includes a variety of text corpora and lexical resources, such as the Brown Corpus, Reuters Corpus, WordNet, and more. These datasets can be used for training and testing your natural language processing models.
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Tokenization: The ability to break down text into words or other meaningful units called tokens.
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Stemming and Lemmatization: Tools for reducing inflected words to their word ste