NLTK panlex_lite giving me error

Question

I\'m trying to use NLTK for my NLP learning in Python.

Certain package called \"panlex_lite\" keeps giving me error so I tried using the following:

Answer 1

Here's a "dirty" hack:

$ rm /Users/Harshil/nltk_data/corpora/panlex_lite.zip
$ rm -r /Users/Harshil/nltk_data/corpora/panlex_lite
$ python

>>> import nltk
>>> dler = nltk.downloader.Downloader()
>>> dler._update_index()
>>> dler._status_cache['panlex_lite'] = 'installed' # Trick the index to treat panlex_lite as it's already installed.
>>> dler.download('all')

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Also, try earthy:

pip install earthy

TL;DR:

import earthy
path_to_nltk_data = '/home/yourusername/nltk_data/'
earthy.download('all', path_to_nltk_data) # Excludes the third party (non-NLTK) packages.

To download panlex_lite exclusively:

import earthy
earthy.download('panlex_lite', path_to_nltk_data)

To download all third-party datasets not natively hosted on nltk_data github:

import earthy
earthy.download('third_party', path_to_nltk_data')