I am trying to use speech tagging in NLTK and have used this command:
>>> text = nltk.word_tokenize("And now for something completely different")
>>> nltk.pos_tag(text)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#4>", line 1, in <module>
nltk.pos_tag(text)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\nltk\tag\__init__.py", line 99, in pos_tag
tagger = load(_POS_TAGGER)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\nltk\data.py", line 605, in load
resource_val = pickle.load(_open(resource_url))
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\nltk\data.py", line 686, in _open
return find(path).open()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\nltk\data.py", line 467, in find
raise LookupError(resource_not_found)
LookupError:
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Resource 'taggers/maxent_treebank_pos_tagger/english.pickle' not
found. Please use the NLTK Downloader to obtain the resource:
However, I get an error message which shows:
engish.pickle not found.
I have download the whole corpora and the english.pickle file is there in the maxtent_treebank_pos_tagger
What can I do to get this to work?
Answer
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.
