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Python 3 Text Processing with NLTK 3 Cookbook - Second Edition
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Python 3 Text Processing with NLTK 3 Cookbook - Second Edition

by Jacob Perkins
August 2014
Beginner to intermediate
304 pages
7h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating a model of likely word tags

As previously mentioned in the Training a unigram part-of-speech tagger recipe, using a custom model with a UnigramTagger class should only be done if you know exactly what you're doing. In this recipe, we're going to create a model for the most common words, most of which always have the same tag no matter what.

How to do it...

To find the most common words, we can use nltk.probability.FreqDist to count word frequencies in the treebank corpus. Then, we can create a ConditionalFreqDist class for tagged words, where we count the frequency of every tag for every word. Using these counts, we can construct a model of the 200 most frequent words as keys, with the most frequent tag for each word as a value. Here's ...

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