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How NLTK Discovers Third Party Software

NLTK finds third party software through environment variables or via path arguments through api calls. This page will list installation instructions & their associated environment variables.

Java

Java is not required by nltk, however some third party software may be dependent on it. NLTK finds the java binary via the system PATH environment variable, or through JAVAHOME or JAVA_HOME.

To search for java binaries (jar files), nltk checks the java CLASSPATH variable, however there are usually independent environment variables which are also searched for each dependency individually.

Windows

Linux

It is best to use the package manager to install java.

Stanford Tagger, NER, Tokenizer and Parser.

To install:

  • Make sure java is installed (version 1.8+)
  • Download & extract the stanford NER package http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/CRF-NER.shtml
  • Download & extract the stanford POS tagger package http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/tagger.shtml
  • Download & extract the stanford Parser package: http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/lex-parser.shtml
  • Add the directories containing stanford-postagger.jar, stanford-ner.jar and stanford-parser.jar to the CLASSPATH environment variable
  • Point the STANFORD_MODELS environment variable to the directory containing the stanford tokenizer models, stanford pos models, stanford ner models, stanford parser models e.g (arabic.tagger, arabic-train.tagger, chinese-distsim.tagger,stanford-parser-x.x.x-models.jar ...)
  • e.g. export STANFORD_MODELS=/usr/share/stanford-postagger-full-2015-01-30/models:/usr/share/stanford-ner-2015-04-20/classifier

Tadm (Toolkit for Advanced Discriminative Modeling)

To install

Megam (MEGA Model Optimization Package)

To install

  • Download & compile MEGAM's source: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~hal/megam/index.html
  • Set the environment variable MEGAM to point to the MEGAM directory.
  • If using macports version of ocaml, modify the MEGAM Makefile to specify the following: WITHCLIBS =-I /opt/local/lib/ocaml/caml and WITHSTR =str.cma -cclib -lcamlstr

C&C Tools/Boxer

To install

Prover9 & Mace4

To install

Malt Parser

To install

  • Make sure java is installed
  • Download & extract the Malt Parser: http://www.maltparser.org/download.html
  • Set the environment variable MALT_PARSER to point to the MaltParser directory, e.g. /home/user/maltparser-1.8/ in Linux.
  • When using a pre-trained model, set the environment variable MALT_MODEL to point to .mco file, e.g. engmalt.linear-1.7.mco from http://www.maltparser.org/mco/mco.html.

Hunpos Tagger

To install

  • Download & extract the hunpos tagger and a model file: https://code.google.com/p/hunpos/downloads/list
  • Set the environment variable HUNPOS_TAGGER to point to the directory containing the hunpos-tag binary
  • NLTK also searches for the model files using the same environment variable, so you can put the model file in the same location (NB the model file path can also be passed to the nltk.tag.hunpos.HunposTagger class via the path_to_model argument)

Senna for Various NLP Tasks

To install

  • Download & extract the Senna files: https://ronan.collobert.com/senna/
  • Set the environment variable SENNA to point to the senna directory. NLTK searches for the binary executable files via this environment variable, but the directory path can also be passed to the nltk.tag.senna.SennaTagger class via the senna_path argument.

CRFSuite for CRF Tagger

To install

  • Download & compile : http://www.chokkan.org/software/crfsuite/
  • Set the environment variable CRFSUITE to point to the directory containing crfsuite (for Linux) or crfsuite.exe for Window. NLTK searches for the binary executable files via this environment variable, but the executable file path can also be passed to the nltk.tag.crfsuite.CRFTagger class via the file_path argument.

REPP Tokenizer

To install

mkdir -p /path/to/where/you/wanna/save/repp
svn co http://svn.delph-in.net/repp/trunk /path/to/where/you/wanna/save/repp
cd /path/to/where/you/wanna/save/repp/ 
aclocal; libtoolize
autoreconf -i
./configure CPPFLAGS=-P
make
  • The installation instructions above is tested for Linux and Mac OS. For more information, see http://moin.delph-in.net/ReppTop
  • After installing you can set the environment variable REPP_TOKENIZER to point to the directory containing the repp tokenizer, e.g. (/path/to/where/you/wanna/save/repp/), then you can instantiate the tokenizer object without specifying any parameter, e.g. (tokenizer = nltk.tokenize.ReppTokenizer())
  • Also, you can directly create the ReppTokenizer object by passing in the directory containing the repp tokenizer without setting the environment variable, i.e. (tokenizer = nltk.tokenize.ReppTokenizer(/path/to/where/you/wanna/save/repp))

If at the ./configure CPPFLAGS=-P step, it shows an error like this on Mac:

configure: error: required ICU library are missing

Please install and link the ICU library (brew install icu4c && brew link icu4c --force) and then retry from the ./configure CPPFLAGS=-P step. If for any reason, you need to unlink the icu4c, try: brew unlink icu4c.

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