Natural Language Processing: Python and NLTK

Diving into NLTK

Instead of going further into the theoretical aspects of natural language processing, let's start with a quick dive into NLTK. I am going to start with some basic example use cases of NLTK. There is a good chance that you have already done something similar. First, I will give a typical Python programmer approach, and then move on to NLTK for a much more efficient, robust, and clean solution.

We will start analyzing with some example text content. For the current example, I have taken the content from Python's home page.

>>>import urllib2
>>># urllib2 is use to download the html content of the web link
>>>response = urllib2.urlopen('http://python.org/')
>>># You can read the entire content of a file using read() method
>>>html ...