python nltk keyword extraction from sentence

Question

\"First thing we do, let\'s kill all the lawyers.\" - William Shakespeare

Given the quote above, I would like to pull out \"k

Answer 1

in your case, you can simply use Rake (thanks to Fabian) package for python to get what you need:

>>> path = #your path 
>>> r = RAKE.Rake(path)
>>> r.run("First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers")
[('lawyers', 1.0), ('kill', 1.0), ('thing', 1.0)]

the path can be for example this file.

but in general, you better to use NLTK package for the NLP usages