The NLTK is a suite of libraries and programs for symbolic and statistical analysis in the field of natural language processing, mainly in the English language, written in Python language. It was developed by Steven Bird and Edward Loper at the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Computer and Information Science. The NLTK includes graphical tools and sample data and is accompanied by a book that exposes the concepts behind natural language problems solved by the toolkit programs, as well as a cookbook for the most common procedures.
NLTK aims to support the research and teaching of NLP and other related fields, such as linguistics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, and machine learning. NLTK has been used successfully as an aid to teaching, as a tool for individual study, and as a platform for prototyping...
