doubts about use of raw() and others functions

[ines faravelli]

Hello, I'm new on this. 

It is possible to use the raw(), sents(), and words() functions in texts that don't belong to corpus from nltk?

thanks

Inés

[Jordi Carrera]

Hey!

It sounds like you just need to initialize a `CorpusReader` object from a custom set of text files in your local drive.

You can do that adapting this code:

```

from nltk.corpurs.reader import PlaintextCorpusReader
root = '/usr/local/corpora/folder_with_corpus_files/'
reader = PlaintextCorpusReader(root, '.*\.txt')

```

You should then be able to call the `Reader`'s  methods you need:

`reader.words()`

`reader.sents()`

[ines faravelli]

great! I'll try with the code, thank you very much