June 2020
Intermediate to advanced
382 pages
11h 39m
English
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NLTK
The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is the most widely utilized package for handling NLP tasks in Python. NLTK is one of the oldest and most popular Python libraries used for NLP. NLTK is great because it basically provides a jumpstart to building any NLP process by giving you the basic tools that you can then chain together to accomplish your goal rather than building all those tools from scratch. A lot of tools are packaged into NLTK, and in the next section, we will download the package and explore some of those tools.
Let's look at BoW-based NLP.