AI engineering glossary · NLP embeddings
What is NLTK?
NLTK (also called Natural Language Toolkit): An open-source Python library and teaching toolkit for language processing, with tools for tokenising, stemming, tagging and parsing, and access to many corpora. It is widely used for learning and for prototyping.
NLTK: an example
nltk.word_tokenize("Chai is ready") returns ["Chai", "is", "ready"].
Related terms
More NLP embeddings terms
- One-hot word vector
- Out-of-vocabulary word
- Padding token
- Part-of-speech tagging
- Pointwise mutual information
- Positive pointwise mutual information
- Relation extraction
- Semantic role labelling
Where you learn it
NLTK is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.