NLP

Moving on from data visualization to NLP, there are also several Python libraries that will be helpful to us in processing text. Each library has unique offerings as well as strengths and weaknesses, and the documentation should be read.

Natural Language Toolkit

The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a Python library for working with natural language – language used by humans in our daily interactions and activities. NLTK is an older Python library, and it is often better to use other libraries such as spaCy for things that used to be done with NLTK, such as named-entity recognition or part-of-speech tagging.

However, just because it is older doesn’t mean that it is obsolete. It is still very useful for analyzing text data, and it provides more linguistic capabilities than libraries such as spaCy.

Put simply, NLTK is a foundational library for doing NLP in Python, and you should not skip past it for more recent libraries and approaches.

Setup

Installing...