NLTK is one of the popular and essential Python packages for natural language processing. It offers all the basic, as well as advanced, NLP operations. It comprises common algorithms such as tokenization, stemming, lemmatization, part-of-speech, and named entity recognition. The main features of the NLTK library are that it's open-source, easy to learn, easy to use, has a prominent community, and has well-organized documentation. The NLTK library can be installed using the pip install command running on the command line as follows:
pip install nltk
NLTK is not a pre-installed library in Anaconda. We can directly install nltk in the Jupyter Notebook. We can use an exclamation point (!) before the command in the cell:
!pip install nltk
SpaCy is another essential and powerful Python package for NLP. It offers a common NLP algorithm as well as advanced functionalities. It is designed for production purposes and develops applications for a large volume of data...
