Is there an alternative to nltk in golang?

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Golang is one of my favourite languages and I want to use it for a personal NLP/ML project. Is golang's ecosystem good and rich enough for this?

Is there an alternative package for nltk in golang?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 04 '16 at 04:48

No. Not yet

There is no single package in Golang, which acts as versatile as nltk for NLP. However, there are several packages which aim to do it.

Here is a compiled list of such packages: https://github.com/gopherds/resources/blob/master/tooling/README.md#nlp

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 18 '18 at 17:50

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You can have a look into this repository, it was recently announced in hacker news. I personally don't have experience using it, but the benchmarks look interesting:

prose is a natural language processing library (English only, at the moment) in pure Go. It supports tokenization, segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, and named-entity extraction.

edited Jul 18 '18 at 17:50

Stephen Rauch

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answered Jul 18 '18 at 17:37

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Is there an alternative to nltk in golang?

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