nltk pos_tag usage

Question

I am trying to use speech tagging in NLTK and have used this command:

>>> text = nltk.word_tokenize(\"And now for something completely different\")
         


        

Answer 1

Your Python installation is not able to reach maxent or treemap.

First, check if the tagger is indeed there: Start Python from the command line.

>>> import nltk

Then you can check using

>>> dir (nltk)

Look through the list to see if maxent and treebank are both there.

Easier would be to type

>>> "maxent" in dir(nltk)
>>> True
>>> "treebank" in dir(nltk)
>>> True

Use nltk.download() --> Models tab and check to see if the treemap tagger shows as installed. You should also try downloading the tagger again.