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I am unable to complete the nltk package download. It always stops at the items omw (Open Multilingual Wordnet). These are the only two remaining ones. I have looked at other help items (i.e. install ntlk supporting packages or error installing Nltk) but the problem persists. It returns the error code 11001, i.e. wrong server location. But the server index http://ntlk.org/nltk_data/ worked for all other items. I am a bit lost here.

Print scree of error message can be found here

I use python 3.5 and have the latest nltk file (downloaded and unzipped it last night)

Many thanks!

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Are you connecting to the internet with a proxy server? If so, try this:

nltk.set_proxy('http://proxy.example.com:3128', ('USERNAME', 'PASSWORD'))
nltk.download()

Alternatively, try this:

Open a terminal window (Use the “Run...” option on the Start menu). Go to the directory where Python is installed, for example C:\Program Files\Python 3.5\

type:

python -m nltk.downloader all

If all that fails, you should try downloading the data manually from here: http://www.nltk.org/nltk_data/ and then put your data in the C:\nltk_data directory.

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    Thanks! The second option "python -m nltk.downloader.all" seemed to work in the sense that I didn't get an error message. I don't use a proxy, but Win 8.1 64 bit. However, when I try a simple example it doesn't work. The example I tried: text = 'hello world! I wish I had more sleep.' print (word_tokenize(text)) The error message says it doesn't find the function "word_tokenize". I have not yet successfully installed numpy and matplotlib. Do I need numpy or another package for ntlk to work? – Simone Nov 24 '15 at 11:55
  • @Simone, I think you are dealing with multiple issues. If the download part worked (no errors) as per my answer, I suggest you accept it so it is marked as closed, and ask another question about the second issue. Thanks. – Luis Miguel Nov 24 '15 at 15:12
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    yes import nltk worked fine. Decided to uninstall everything and start afresh with the 32 bit version. As per your suggestion I closed this item. – Simone Nov 24 '15 at 18:23
  • Thank you Simone. Good luck! – Luis Miguel Nov 24 '15 at 18:29