Set up for "Get Started with NLP in Python"

This repo includes the notebooks, source data, and other materials for the course Get Started with Natural Language Processing in Python.

Virtual Environment

It's recommended to use virtualenv to manage your Python 3 virtual environment:

virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 ~/venv

Then run:

source ~/venv/bin/activate

Installation on a Laptop

To install the required Python libraries, Jupyter, and related data sets:

pip install -r requirements.txt

python -m nltk.downloader punkt
python -m nltk.downloader wordnet
python -m textblob.download_corpora
python -m spacy download en

pip install jupyter
pip install jupyterlab

Start jupyter

jupyter notebook

Installation on an Ubuntu server in a cloud

Alternatively, if you want install all of the required dependencies and run from an Ubuntu VM in the cloud, see the notes in INSTALL.md

Command line test

To verify that the code in the pynlp library runs correctly, i.e., that the installation succeeded:

python pynlp.py html/article1.html a1.json