We will now discuss some of the most important Python libraries for NLP. We will delve deeper into some of these libraries in subsequent chapters.
NLTK
The Natural Language Toolkit library (NLTK) is one of the most popular Python libraries for natural language processing. It was developed by Steven Bird and Edward Loper of the University of Pennsylvania. Developed by academics and researchers, this library is intended to support research in NLP and comes with a suite of pedagogical resources that provide us with an excellent way to learn NLP. We will be using NLTK throughout this book, but first, let's explore some of the features of NLTK.
However, before we do anything, we need to install the library by running the following command in the Anaconda Prompt:
pip install nltk
NLTK corpora
A corpus is a large body of text or linguistic data and is very important in NLP research for application development and testing. NLTK allows users to access over 50...
