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Installing NLTK in Windows

The document provides instructions for installing NLTK and Python in Windows. It is a 10 step process where the user first installs Python, then uses pip to install NLTK within the Python environment. It also describes how to verify the installations, download NLTK datasets, and run a sample NLTK script to tokenize text.

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Installing NLTK in Windows

The document provides instructions for installing NLTK and Python in Windows. It is a 10 step process where the user first installs Python, then uses pip to install NLTK within the Python environment. It also describes how to verify the installations, download NLTK datasets, and run a sample NLTK script to tokenize text.

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Installing NLTK in Windows

In this part, we will learn that how to make setup NLTK via terminal (Command
prompt in windows).

The instruction given below are based on the assumption that you don’t have
python installed. So, first step is to install python.

Installing Python in Windows:


Step 1) Go to link https://www.python.org/downloads/, and select the latest
version for windows.

Note: If you don’t want to download the latest version, you can visit the download
tab and see all releases.
Step 2) Click on the Downloaded File

Step 3)Select Customize Installation


Step 4) Click NEXT
Step 5) In next screen

1. Select the advanced options


2. Give a Custom install location. In my case, a folder on C drive is chosen for
ease in operation
3. Click Install
Step 6) Click Close button once install is done.
Step 7) Copy the path of your Scripts folder.

Step 8) In windows command prompt

 Navigate to the location of the pip folder


 Enter command to install NLTK

pip3 install nltk

 Installation should be done successfully


NOTE: For Python2 use the commandpip2 install nltk

Step 9) In Windows Start Menu, search and open PythonShell


Step 10) You can verify whether the installation is accurate supplying the below
command

import nltk

If you see no error, Installation is complete.


NLTK Dataset
NLTK module has many datasets available that you need to download to use. More
technically it is called corpus. Some of the examples
are stopwords, gutenberg, framenet_v15, large_grammarsand so on.

How to Download all packages of NLTK


Step 1)Run the Python interpreter in Windows or Linux

Step 2)

1. Enter the commands

import nltk
nltk.download ()

2. NLTK Downloaded Window Opens. Click the Download Button to download


the dataset. This process will take time, based on your internet connection
NOTE: You can change the download location by Clicking File> Change Download
Directory
Step 3) To test the installed data use the following code

>>> from nltk.corpus import brown


>>>brown.words()
[‘The’, ‘Fulton’, ‘County’, ‘Grand’, ‘Jury’, ‘said’, …]
How to Run NLTK Script
Step1) In your favorite code editor, copy the code and save the file
as “NLTKsample.py “

from nltk.tokenize import RegexpTokenizer


tokenizer = RegexpTokenizer(r'\w+')
filterdText=tokenizer.tokenize('Hello Students, This is out Natural Language Processing Course.')
print(filterdText)

Code Explanation:

1. In this program, the objective was to remove all type of punctuations from
given text. We imported “RegexpTokenizer” which is a module of NLTK. It
removes all the expression, symbol, character, numeric or any things
whatever you want.
2. You just have passed the regular Expression to the “RegexpTokenizer”
module.
3. Further, we tokenized the word using “tokenize” module. The output is
stored in the “filterdText” variable.
4. And printed them using “print().”

Step2)In the command prompt

 Navigate to the location where you have saved the file


 Run the command Python NLTKsample.py

This will show output as :

['Hello', 'Students', 'This', 'is', 'out', 'Natural', 'Language', 'Processing', 'Course']

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