TextBlob: Simplified Text Processing
From the webpage:
TextBlob is a Python (2 and 3) library for processing textual data. It provides a simple API for diving into common natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as part-of-speech tagging, noun phrase extraction, sentiment analysis, classification, translation, and more.
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TextBlob stands on the giant shoulders of NLTK and pattern, and plays nicely with both.
Features
- Noun phrase extraction
- Part-of-speech tagging
- Sentiment analysis
- Classification (Naive Bayes, Decision Tree)
- Language translation and detection powered by Google Translate
- Tokenization (splitting text into words and sentences)
- Word and phrase frequencies
- Parsing
n-grams- Word inflection (pluralization and singularization) and lemmatization
- Spelling correction
- JSON serialization
- Add new models or languages through extensions
- WordNet integration
Knowing that TextBlob plays well with NLTK is a big plus!