NLTK – Installation and Basics

NLTK is…

To download nltk:

pip install NLTK

Once the NLTK module is downloaded you can check that it has been downloaded by opening the python shell and typing: import NLTK

To download the files related to NLTK:

import nltk
nltk.download()

There will be a dialog box that pops up and you will want to download all. Once that is complete you will be able to get started with NLTK.