text analysis in python

[Mark Winrock]

Maurice Ling wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a postgraduate and my project deals with a fair bit of text 
> analysis. I'm looking for some libraries and tools that is geared 
> towards text analysis (and text engineering). So far, the most 
> comprehensive toolkit in python for my purpose is NLTK (natural language 
> tool kit) by Edward Loper and Steven Bird, followed by mxTextTools. Are 
> there any OSS tools out there that is more comprehensive than NLTK?
> 
> In the Java world, there is GATE (general architecture for text 
> engineering) and it seems very impressive. Are there something like that 
> for Python?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Cheers
> Maurice
> 
> 

You might try http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/montylingua/

"Liu, Hugo (2004). MontyLingua: An end-to-end natural
language processor with common sense. Available
at: web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/montylingua."