Help needed in downloading Brown corpus

[Peter Pearson]

On Sat, 1 May 2010 06:28:33 -0700 (PDT), Adil Kaleem wrote:
> Hi all
> I'm a masters student in NLP. I needed to download the Brown corpus.
> I'm unable to download from nltk.org with the python CLI. My network
> connection is behind a proxy server so it's creating a problem. Since
> I don't know a bit of python, so unable to figure a way out. Can
> someone help me in this regard either how to solve my downloading
> problem or how to get Brown Corpus from some other link.
> Thanks in advance.

As I understand it (from Wikipedia), the Brown Corpus is a 
collection of samples of modern American English text, and
nltk.org provides a Python toolkit for exploring said Corpus.

I'm trying to figure out whether you're trying to get the
Corpus or the toolkit.  Neither interpretation looks
plausible: if you're after the Corpus itself and you don't
know a bit of Python, why are you struggling with Python?
On the other hand, if you're after the toolkit, what's the
problem? People download Python modules all the time.  And
besides, why would you be after the toolkit if you don't
know a bit of Python?

If your goal is to learn enough Python to use the toolkit,
you'll find this newsgroup full of smart and helpful people.

But you'll have to be a little more explicit about what
you're trying to do and more specific about what obstacles
you encounter.  As you might see by looking at other threads
on this newsgroup, the queries that get the most prompt and
useful responses usually include blocks of quoted text of
the form "I type this [cut-and-pasted block] and get
this response [another cut-and-pasted block]."

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