Splitting Tree

[subhabangalore at gmail.com]

On Sunday, December 2, 2012 5:39:32 PM UTC+5:30, subhaba... at gmail.com wrote:
> Dear Group,
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> I am using NLTK and I used the following command,
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> chunk=nltk.ne_chunk(tag)
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> print "The Chunk of the Line Is:",chunk
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> The Chunk of the Line Is: (S
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>   ''/''
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>   It/PRP
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>   is/VBZ
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>   virtually/RB
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>   a/DT
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>   homecoming/NN
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>   ,/,
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>   ''/''
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>   said/VBD
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>   (PERSON Gen/NNP Singh/NNP)
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>   on/IN
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>   arrival/NN)
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> Now I am trying to split the output preferably by ",/,".
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> But how would I split a Tree object in python.
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> If I use command like,
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> chunk_word=chunk.split()
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> It is giving me the error as,
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> File "C:/Python27/docstructure1.py", line 38, in document_structure1
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>     chunk1=chunk.split()
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> AttributeError: 'Tree' object has no attribute 'split'
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> If anyone of the learned members of the room can kindly help.
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> Regards,
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> Subhabrata.

Sorry to ask this. I converted in string and then splitted it.