[Corpora-List] NLTK 1.1 released

From: Edward Loper (edloper@gradient.cis.upenn.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 10:57:09 MET DST

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    NLTK version 1.1 is now available on SourceForge:

         <http://nltk.sourceforge.net>

    NLTK, the Natural Language Toolkit, is a suite of Python libraries and
    programs for symbolic and statistical natural language processing.
    NLTK includes graphical demonstrations and sample data. It is
    accompanied by extensive documentation, including tutorials that
    explain the underlying concepts behind the language processing tasks
    supported by the toolkit.

    NLTK is ideally suited to students who are learning NLP (natural
    language processing) or conducting research in NLP or closely related
    areas, including empirical linguistics, cognitive science, artificial
    intelligence, information retrieval, and machine learning. NLTK has
    been used successfully as a teaching tool, as an individual study
    tool, and as a platform for prototyping and building research systems.

    NLTK version 1.1 adds:
       - A new package containing 11 datasets that are useful for
         developing and testing NLP tools, along with tokenizers and
         parsers to provide a high-level interface to the datasets.
       - A new package containing third party contributions to NLTK
         that have not (yet) been incorporated into the toolkit.
       - Significant improvements to the documentation, including new
         tutorials, revised tutorials, and improved API documentation.
       - A new module that defines a standard interface for stemmers,
         and implements the Porter stemmer.
       - Improvements to the graphical demos.

    For a complete list of improvements, see the change log:

         <http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=178889>



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