NLP Workshops

Introduction and tutorial about Natural Language Processing. This is meant to be presented at the Data For Good NLP workshops, it will be extended over time.

##Requirements

Python 2.7

http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/starting/installation/

pip (Package Manager for python)

https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/

Python modules

pip install nltk word2vec unidecode

Jupyter Notebook

pip install jupyter

NLTK models

python -c 'import nltk; nltk.download()'

In the Models tab of the downloader interface, install Average Perceptron Tagger, Punkt Tokenizer Models and Snowball Data.

Load the notebook

Go to the notebook directory and run:

jupyter notebook

Then select the notebook in your browser.