Package nltk :: Module text :: Class Text

Class Text

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            Text

A text object, which can be loaded with a sequence of words, and which supports counting, concordancing, collocation discovery, etc. This class is intended to support initial exploration of texts. It is initialized with a list of words, e.g.:

>>> moby = Text(nltk.corpus.gutenberg.words('melville-moby_dick.txt'))

Many of the methods simply print their results, and are intended for use via the interactive console.

Instance Methods

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__init__(self, text, name=None)
Create a Text object.

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concordance(self, word, width=80, lines=25)
Print a concordance for the word with the specified context window.

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collocations(self, num=20)
Print collocations derived from the text.

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readability(self, method)

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generate(self, length=100)
Print random text, generated using a trigram language model.

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similar(self, word, num=20)
Distributional similarity: find other words which appear in the same contexts as the specified word.

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dispersion_plot(self, words)

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zipf_plot(self, *args)

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vocab(self)

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__str__(self)
Returns: A string representation of this FreqDist. source code

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__repr__(self)
Returns: A string representation of this FreqDist. source code

Inherited from list: __add__, __contains__, __delitem__, __delslice__, __eq__, __ge__, __getattribute__, __getitem__, __getslice__, __gt__, __hash__, __iadd__, __imul__, __iter__, __le__, __len__, __lt__, __mul__, __ne__, __new__, __reversed__, __rmul__, __setitem__, __setslice__, append, count, extend, index, insert, pop, remove, reverse, sort