Generating random sentences from custom text in Python's NLTK?

Question

I\'m having trouble with the NLTK under Python, specifically the .generate() method.

generate(self, length=100)

Print random text, generat

Answer 1

Are you sure that using word_tokenize is the right approach?

This Google groups page has the example:

>>> import nltk
>>> text = nltk.Text(nltk.corpus.brown.words()) # Get text from brown
>>> text.generate() 

But I've never used nltk, so I can't say whether that works the way you want.