On my Mac, installing bare-bones NLTK and typingnltk.download() worked fine. It gave a popup window and was smooth sailing from there.
Now I am having trouble with a remove server (a Linux VPS with shell). I added nltk to Python 2 and Python 3, and ran nltk.download() from the server. The latter gave me non-functioning ASCII art of a checkbox:
Python 3.4.2 (default, Oct 8 2014, 10:45:20) [GCC 4.9.1] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
information.
>>> import nltk
>>> nltk.download() NLTK Downloader
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d) Download l) List u) Update c) Config h) Help q)
Quit
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Downloader> h
Commands: d) Download a package or collection u) Update out of
date packages l) List packages & collections h) Help c)
View & Modify Configuration q) Quit
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
d) Download l) List u) Update c) Config h) Help q) Quit
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Downloader> s Command 's' unrecognized
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
d) Download l) List u) Update c) Config h) Help q) Quit
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Downloader> a Command 'a' unrecognized
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
d) Download l) List u) Update c) Config h) Help q)
Quit
---------------------------------------------------------------------
------ Downloader> d
Download which package (l=list; x=cancel)? Identifier> l Packages:
[ ] abc................. Australian Broadcasting Commission 2006 [ ]
alpino.............. Alpino Dutch Treebank [ ]
averaged_perceptron_tagger Averaged Perceptron Tagger [ ]
basque_grammars..... Grammars for Basque [ ] biocreative_ppi.....
BioCreAtIvE (Critical Assessment of Information
Extraction Systems in Biology) [ ]
bllip_wsj_no_aux.... BLLIP Parser: WSJ Model [ ]
book_grammars....... Grammars from NLTK Book [ ]
brown_tei........... Brown Corpus (TEI XML Version) [ ]
cess_cat............ CESS-CAT Treebank [ ] cess_esp............
CESS-ESP Treebank [ ] chat80.............. Chat-80 Data Files [ ]
city_database....... City Database [ ] cmudict............ The
Carnegie Mellon Pronouncing Dictionary (0.6) [ ]
comparative_sentences Comparative Sentence Dataset [ ]
comtrans............ ComTrans Corpus Sample [ ] conll2000...........
CONLL 2000 Chunking Corpus [ ] conll2002........... CONLL 2002 Named
Entity Recognition Corpus [ ] conll2007........... Dependency
Treebanks from CoNLL 2007 (Catalan
and Basque Subset)
I know I don't need the other languages; I know a few of them, but at partial proficiency.
I would like to be able use the NLTK demonstration as discussed in https://pythonprogramming.net/wordnet-nltk-tutorial/ . It uses brown and probably other packages; but part of my major goal is to be able to calculate distance between words.
