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English grammar for parsing in NLTK

Asked 2011-05-24T19:17:40.473
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Is there a ready-to-use English grammar that I can just load it and use in NLTK? I've searched around examples of parsing with NLTK, but it seems like that I have to manually specify grammar before parsing a sentence.

Thanks a lot!

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Use the MaltParser, there you have a pretrained english-grammar, and also some other pretrained languages. And the Maltparser is a dependency parser and not some simple bottom-up, or top-down Parser.

Just download the MaltParser from http://www.maltparser.org/index.html and use the NLTK like this:

import nltk
parser = nltk.parse.malt.MaltParser()
answered 2012-08-08T06:47:16.753

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