NLTK was unable to find the TreeTagger bin!

[Clockwork-Robot]

Hello,

I am trying to use treetagger-python and I don't seem to have it working properly.
I downloaded TreeTagger and installed it in ~/treetagger and therefore set TREETAGGER_HOME to this path in my .bashrc file.

However, when I want to use it, I get the following error:

NLTK was unable to find the TreeTagger bin!

I think it comes from a TREETAGGER_HOME which is misconfigured, but I actually have no clue of what could be the correct path.

I also may be wrong and the error could come from somewhere else.

Could you please enlighten me?

Thanks a lot!

[miotto]

Hello,

I think the easiest way is to change in TreeTagger Python source code the search path to the directory of the TreeTagger.
Change the file treetagger.py in line 82 from '~/tree-tagger/cmd' to '~/treetagger/cmd' (your installation directory of TreeTagger). Now Python/NLTK should find the files in the correct directory.

If this does not work, we will find another solution. Has the installation and the test works, as described in the URL TreeTagger?

Regards

[Clockwork-Robot]

Hello miotto,

Thank you very much for the quick answer! Unfortunately, changing the source code didn't make it work; I still get the same error message.

TreeTagger works well as you can see below:

ana@velociraptor:~$ cd ~/treetagger
ana@velociraptor:~/treetagger$ echo 'Salut tout le monde !' | cmd/tree-tagger-french
    reading parameters ...
    tagging ...
Salut   NOM salut
tout    ADV tout
le  DET:ART le
monde   NOM monde
!   SENT    !
     finished.

Have a good day!

[miotto]

Hello,

Sorry that I answer so late.

I checked again, it was my fault.
At the end of the export of the environment variable 'TREETAGGER_HOME' has a 'cmd' are added. It seems that NLTK searches the executable file directly in the specified directory. The command must be as follows

export TREETAGGER_HOME='/path/to/your/TreeTagger/cmd/'

Please try it again.

Regards

[niklasben]

I had the same issue and you're last posting worked, but raised a different Error. I opened a new issue for this here: #11

[jacquesfize]

Hi,
I had the same issue and resolved it. The error comes from the tree-tagger installation. When you're installing tree-tagger, you have 3 big steps :

• Download tree-tagger
• Download the scripts into your tree-tagger directory
• Then use the install-tagger.sh

But for me, I didn't execute the install-tagger.sh because I didn't see the interest. But after looking into it, the script is doing 2 things:

• Extract the parameters files and dispose each of them in the right directory with the right name
• Change the path in each script files (tree-tagger-french, etc.) so you can execute tree-tagger scripts anywhere !

So if you didn't execute the install-tagger.sh, run it ! For me, it works directly after executing it !

Best

[miotto]

Thanks you for the response.

[g-i-o-r-g-i-o]

wrong
export TREETAGGER_HOME='/path/to/your/TreeTagger/cmd/'

fixed
export TREETAGGER_HOME='/path/to/your/TreeTagger/'

[ThayerBanker21]

Unfortunately, I am having the same issues as above e.g. 'NLTK was unable to find the TreeTagger bin!' I checked all the solutions above, but to no avail.

---

AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last)
in ()
1 tt_es = TreeTagger(path_to_treetagger='../')
2
----> 3 print(tt_es.tag('Como las matrioskas rusas esas muñecas que llevan en su vientre otras figuras estas memorias'))

/Users/brentdial/Marvel/Ng/Project_Cielo/TreeTagger/treetagger-python/treetagger.py in tag(self, sentences)
158 # Run the tagger and get the output
159 if(self._abbr_list is None):
--> 160 p = Popen([self._treetagger_bin],
161 shell=False, stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
162 elif(self._abbr_list is not None):

AttributeError: 'TreeTagger' object has no attribute '_treetagger_bin'

Any other ideas?

For instance, what is the what argument goes into TreeTagger() if the TREETAGGER_HOME is set? Do you still put the path?