#Workshop - Introduction to NLP using NLTK and Python QCon San Francisco 2016

Amber McKenzie

##Pre-requisite installation

###Windows:

####Install git:

• Download: https://git-scm.com/download/win
• Run the installer, use Git from the Windows Command Prompt
• Open a command prompt, navigate to a working directory
• Run: git clone https://github.com/ab6/QConSF-2016.git

####Install Python3:

• Download: https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.5.1/python-3.5.1.exe
• Run the installer, use the custom installation to set the environment variables and ensure pip is included

###Mac:

• Python Mac Install Documentation: https://docs.python.org/3/using/mac.html

###Install Python Libraries:

• NLTK: Open a console, run: pip install nltk
• NUMPY: Open a console, run: pip install numpy
  • IF NUMPY INSTALL FAILS (Windows Only):
    • Go to http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#numpy
    • Download numpy+mkl32 (numpy-1.10.2+mkl-cp35-none-win32.whl)
    • Open a console, navigate to the download directory
    • Run: pip install numpy-1.10.2+mkl-cp35-none-win32.whl
• MATPLOTLIB: Open a console, run: pip install matplotlib

###NLTK requirements:

• Run: python
• Execute the following in the python prompt
  • import nltk
  • nltk.download()
• When the NLTK Downloader opens, click the Corpora tab
• Download the following:
  • brown
  • gutenberg
  • state_union
  • stopwords
  • words
• Click the Models tab
• Download the following:
  • averaged_perceptron_tagger
  • maxent_ne_chunker
  • punkt