Using NLTK corpora with AWS Lambda functions in Python

Question

I\'m encountering a difficulty when using NLTK corpora (in particular stop words) in AWS Lambda. I\'m aware that the corpora need to be downloaded and have done so with NLTK

Answer 1

I had the same problem before but I solved it using the environment variable.

1. Execute "nltk.download()" and copy it to the root folder of your AWS lambda application. (The folder should be called "nltk_data".)
2. In the user interface of your lambda function (in the AWS console), you add "NLTK_DATA" = "./nltk_data". Please see the image.