Python Natural Language Processing

Resources for accessing free corpora

Getting the corpus is a challenging task, but in this section, I will provide you with some of the links from which you can download a free corpus and use it to build NLP applications.

The nltk library provides some inbuilt corpus. To list down all the corpus names, execute the following commands:

    import nltk.corpus
    dir(nltk.corpus) # Python shell
    print dir(nltk.corpus) # Pycharm IDE syntax
  

In Figure 2.2, you can see the output of the preceding code; the highlighted part indicates the name of the corpora that are already installed:

Figure 2.2: List of all available corpora in nltk

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