Generating Ngrams (Unigrams,Bigrams etc) from a large corpus of .txt files and their Frequency

Question

I need to write a program in NLTK that breaks a corpus (a large collection of txt files) into unigrams, bigrams, trigrams, fourgrams and fivegrams. I have already written co

Answer 1

Just use ntlk.ngrams.

import nltk
from nltk import word_tokenize
from nltk.util import ngrams
from collections import Counter

text = "I need to write a program in NLTK that breaks a corpus (a large collection of \
txt files) into unigrams, bigrams, trigrams, fourgrams and fivegrams.\ 
I need to write a program in NLTK that breaks a corpus"
token = nltk.word_tokenize(text)
bigrams = ngrams(token,2)
trigrams = ngrams(token,3)
fourgrams = ngrams(token,4)
fivegrams = ngrams(token,5)

print Counter(bigrams)

Counter({('program', 'in'): 2, ('NLTK', 'that'): 2, ('that', 'breaks'): 2,
 ('write', 'a'): 2, ('breaks', 'a'): 2, ('to', 'write'): 2, ('I', 'need'): 2,
 ('a', 'corpus'): 2, ('need', 'to'): 2, ('a', 'program'): 2, ('in', 'NLTK'): 2,
 ('and', 'fivegrams'): 1, ('corpus', '('): 1, ('txt', 'files'): 1, ('unigrams', 
','): 1, (',', 'trigrams'): 1, ('into', 'unigrams'): 1, ('trigrams', ','): 1,
 (',', 'bigrams'): 1, ('large', 'collection'): 1, ('bigrams', ','): 1, ('of',
 'txt'): 1, (')', 'into'): 1, ('fourgrams', 'and'): 1, ('fivegrams', '.'): 1,
 ('(', 'a'): 1, (',', 'fourgrams'): 1, ('a', 'large'): 1, ('.', 'I'): 1, 
('collection', 'of'): 1, ('files', ')'): 1})

UPDATE (with pure python):

import os

corpus = []
path = '.'
for i in os.walk(path).next()[2]:
    if i.endswith('.txt'):
        f = open(os.path.join(path,i))
        corpus.append(f.read())
frequencies = Counter([])
for text in corpus:
    token = nltk.word_tokenize(text)
    bigrams = ngrams(token, 2)
    frequencies += Counter(bigrams)