NLTK and Stopwords Fail #lookuperror

Question

I am trying to start a project of sentiment analysis and I will use the stop words method. I made some research and I found that nltk have stopwords but when I execute the c

Answer 1

I tried from ubuntu terminal and I don't know why the GUI didn't show up according to tttthomasssss answer. So I followed the comment from KLDavenport and it worked. Here is the summary:

Open your terminal/command-line and type python then

>>> import nltk .>>> nltk.download("stopwords")

This will store the stopwords corpus under the nltk_data. For my case it was /home/myusername/nltk_data/corpora/stopwords.

If you need another corpus then visit nltk data and find the corpus with their ID. Then use the ID to download like we did for stopwords.