Installing NLTK and using it for Human language processing

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Akshay Pai
Mar 17, 2015

NLTK stands for “Natural Language Tool Kit”. It is a python programming module which is used to clean and process human language data. Its rich inbuilt tools helps us to easily build applications in the field of Natural Language Processing (a.k.a NLP). This tutorial shows how NLTK can be installed and used with an example.

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Akshay Pai

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