%0 Conference Paper %1 Bird:2006:NNL:1225403.1225421 %A Bird, Steven %B Proceedings of the COLING/ACL on Interactive presentation sessions %C Stroudsburg, PA, USA %D 2006 %I Association for Computational Linguistics %K Python computational linguistics %P 69--72 %R 10.3115/1225403.1225421 %T NLTK: the natural language toolkit %U http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/1225403.1225421 %X The Natural Language Toolkit is a suite of program modules, data sets and tutorials supporting research and teaching in computational linguistics and natural language processing. NLTK is written in Python and distributed under the GPL open source license. Over the past year the toolkit has been rewritten, simplifying many linguistic data structures and taking advantage of recent enhancements in the Python language. This paper reports on the simplified toolkit and explains how it is used in teaching NLP.

@inproceedings{Bird:2006:NNL:1225403.1225421, abstract = {The Natural Language Toolkit is a suite of program modules, data sets and tutorials supporting research and teaching in computational linguistics and natural language processing. NLTK is written in Python and distributed under the GPL open source license. Over the past year the toolkit has been rewritten, simplifying many linguistic data structures and taking advantage of recent enhancements in the Python language. This paper reports on the simplified toolkit and explains how it is used in teaching NLP.}, acmid = {1225421}, added-at = {2011-06-14T12:45:29.000+0200}, address = {Stroudsburg, PA, USA}, author = {Bird, Steven}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2a138532322f3c613bc92db9e5e8fc196/jennymac}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the COLING/ACL on Interactive presentation sessions}, description = {NLTK}, doi = {10.3115/1225403.1225421}, interhash = {754f14754afd49a0f7e6ebfb9587cd51}, intrahash = {a138532322f3c613bc92db9e5e8fc196}, keywords = {Python computational linguistics}, location = {Sydney, Australia}, numpages = {4}, pages = {69--72}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, series = {COLING-ACL '06}, timestamp = {2011-06-14T12:45:30.000+0200}, title = {NLTK: the natural language toolkit}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/1225403.1225421}, year = 2006 }