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Natural Language Processing with Python updated for Python 3 and NLTK 3

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Resurfaced independently across 5 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
6
submitters
6
observed span
2010–2017
peak thread · 15 comments
107 pts
latest 20+ return · 2017-09-15
107 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

First comments on top threads

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Unless something changed (a lot) with NLTK, I had much better experience using spaCy https://spacy.io/ (API and documentation-wise; and quality of results-wise).

stared·107-point thread·

Here is a good blog about NLTK: http://streamhacker.com/ The blogger is also the author of the book "Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook"

gbaygon·101-point thread·

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Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
233

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Total comments
22

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2010-11-28Natural Language Toolkit - Processing Text with Pythoniuguy160
2011-03-11Book - Natural Language ToolkitDanielRibeiro70
2011-09-29Natural Language Processing with PythonFirst breakoutdanso10115
2014-03-06Natural Language Processing with Python (2009)halflings10
2015-04-09Natural Language Processing with Pythonlorenzfx10
2017-09-15Natural Language Processing with Python updated for Python 3 and NLTK 3Best thread · Latest 20+ point returnhappy-go-lucky1077