Technical requirements

Throughout this book, I will be showing examples that were run using an Anaconda installation of Python 3.6.10. To install Anaconda, follow the instructions here: https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/install/.

After you have installed Anaconda, use it to create a virtual environment:

conda create -n nlp_book python=3.6.10 anaconda
activate nlp_book

Then, install spaCy 2.3.0 and NLTK 3.4.5:

pip install nltk
pip install spacy

After you have installed spaCy and NLTK, install the models needed to use them. For spaCy, use this:

python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

Use Python commands to download the necessary model for NLTK:

python
>>> import nltk
>>> nltk.download('punkt')

All the code that is in this book can be found in the book's GitHub repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Python-Natural-Language-Processing-Cookbook.

Important note

The files in the book's GitHub repository should...