Using NLTK Part-of-Speech Tagger

Learn about the Part-of-Speech tagger in the NLTK library. Gain hands-on experience using parts of speech from the NLTK library.

NLTK taggers

The NLTK library provides different ways to implement POS tagging, including CRFTagger, StanfordPOSTagger, BrillTagger, etc., but in this lesson, we'll focus on the two most commonly used implementations:

  • The perceptron model, which is also the default tagger

  • The HMM tagger

NLTK default classifier

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