using NLTK for an italian corpus

[Paolo Eusebi]

Hi everybody,

there is an option to work with an italian corpus with NLTK?

I mostly need to extract features like tokens and position tags.

[Dimitriadis, A. (Alexis)]

Hi Paolo,

I believe punctuation rules for Italian are close enough to English that you should be able to just use the default nltk tokenizers on Italian. Part of speech tagging is language-specific, so you will need to use a third-party tagger for Italian or train your own on a POS-tagged Italian corpus. The NLTK provides numerous tagger and classifier classes that you can train with your own data. Read the nltk book.

Alexis

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