Version 0.7 of the Natural Language Toolkit is now available for
download. The Natural Language Toolkit is a Python package that
simplifies the construction of programs that process natural language.
In particular:
- It provides basic tools for manipulating data and performing tasks
related to NLP.
- It defines standard interfaces between the different components of
an NLP system.
- It provides an infrastructure for building new NLP systems.
The toolkit's primary aim is to serve as a pedagogical tool; but it is
also useful as a framework for implementing research-related programs.
NLTK runs on most platforms, including Windows, OS X, Linux, and UNIX.
For more information, or to download a copy, please visit our web page:
http://nltk.sf.net
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Toolkit Contents
- [Python Modules] implement the basic data types, tools, and
interfaces that make up the toolkit.
- [Tutorials] teach students how to use the toolkit, in the context
of performing specific tasks.
- [Exercises and Problem Sets] help students learn more about
various aspects of natural language processing.
- [Reference Documentation] provides precise definitions of the
behavior of each module, interface, class, method, function, and
variable defined by the toolkit.
- [Technical Documentation] explains and justifies the toolkit's
design and implementation.
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Contributing
NLTK is an open source project, and we welcome any contributions. We
deliberately structured NLTK to facilitate parallel development. If
you are interested in contributing to NLTK, or have any ideas for
improvements, please talk to us, or send us email at
edloper@gradient.cis.upenn.edu and sb@unagi.cis.upenn.edu.
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NLTK 0.7 includes the following modules:
Basics
[token] Basic classes for encoding and processing individual
elements of text, such as words or sentences.
[tree] Classes for representing hierarchical structures over
text, such as syntax trees.
[probability] Classes that encode frequency distributions and
probability distributions.
Tagging
[tagger] A standard interface to tag each token of a text with
supplementary information, such as its part of speech; and
several implementations of that interface.
Parsing
[cfg] Basic data types for encoding context free grammars.
[parser] A standard interface to produce trees representing the
structure of texts; and two simple implementations of that
interface.
[parser.chart] A flexible parser implementation that uses a
chart to record hypotheses about syntactic constituents.
[parser.chunk] A standard interface for robust parsers used to
identify non-overlapping linguistic groups (such as base
noun phrases) in unrestricted text; and a regular-expression
based implementation of that interface.
[parser.probabilistic] A standard interface for probabilistic
parsers; and two implementations of that interface.
Text Classification
[classifier] A standard interface for classifying texts into
categories.
[classifier.feature] A standard way of encoding the information
used to make classification decisions.
[classifier.naivebayes] A text classifier implementation based
on the Naive Bayes assumption.
[classifier.maxent] An implementation of the maximum entropy
model for text classification; and implementations of the
GIS and IIS algorithms for training the classifier.
[classifier.featureselection] A standard interface for choosing
which features are relevant for a given classification
decision.
Finite State Automata
[fsa] Classes for representing finite state automata and regular
expressions.
Visualization and Interactive Tools
[draw] A Tk-based framework for building graphical tools.
[draw.tree] A graphical representation for hierarchical
structures.
[draw.fsa] A graphical representation for finite state automata.
[draw.plot] A tool for graphing arbitrary functions.
[draw.chart] An interactive graphical tool for experimenting
with the chart parser.
[draw.rdparser] An interactive graphical tool for exploring the
recursive descent parser.
[draw.srparser] An interactive graphical tool for learning about
the shift/reduce parser.
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