how to use nltk.path.load() to load corpora from a shared folder?

[Lucas Champollion]

I am teaching a large class using JupyterHub. I want to deploy a Jupyter Notebook that uses nltk. Each student should be able to access nltk's verson of the Brown corpus via a shared folder in a central location, so that no student has to download this corpus. Similarly for other datasets.

Using nltk.download("brown") I have downloaded the brown corpus and others into a folder nltk_data and moved this folder into the shared directory:

(otter-env) instructor@jupyter-lc126:~$ ls shared/nltk_data/corpora/
brown      gutenberg      inaugural      reuters.zip  state_union.zip  webtext.zip
brown.zip  gutenberg.zip  inaugural.zip  state_union  webtext
(otter-env) instructor@jupyter-lc126:~$ ls shared/nltk_data/corpora/brown

ca01  ca28      cb10  cc10  ce03  (...)

How do I allow students to load these corpora from the shared directory?

Failed attempt:

nltk.data.load('/home/instructor/shared/nltk_data/corpora/brown/', format="text")

returns :

IsADirectoryError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/home/instructor/shared/nltk_data/corpora/brown'

Best

Lucas

nltk.data.path.append('/path/to/data')

[sumit srivastava]

Hey Lucas,

I would recommend loading the Nltk data folder path as a system path at the start of your script.

E.g.,

import sys

sys.path.append(´path_to_nltk_data´)

Regards
Sumit Srivastava

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[Naveen Kumar Baskaran]

Hi ,

It seems that '/home/instructor/shared/nltk_data/corpora/brown is a directory path not a file.

If you are using nltk.data.load please specify the file name with your path.

Or if you want oath use nltk.data.path.

Hope this helps..!