nltk/nltk — Issue #36: Support Open section of American National Corpus
Author: alexrudnick
Created: 2012-01-17 06:14:01+00:00
State: open

Write a corpus reader to access the content of the OANC:
http://www.anc.org/OANC/OANC-1.0.1-UTF8.zip
It would be good to avoid creating our own distribution of the data.

Migrated from http://code.google.com/p/nltk/issues/detail?id=137

earlier comments

edloper said, at 2009-02-08T04:27:30.000Z:

Mostly done with this; will try to get it checked in tomorrow.

StevenBird1 said, at 2009-02-21T01:44:59.000Z:

Carried forward to 0.9.9

tomonori.nagano said, at 2011-01-27T14:13:29.000Z:

Is it already done? I needed to use OANC and wrote a simple CorpusReader.
http://language.dyndns.org/research/ANC/

ANC has a tool (ANCTools) that "supports" the NLTK format, but the data keep only POS information after transformation. The better implementation is that NLTK reads their (combined) XML format that has many other information such as utterances, NP/VP chunks, domain etc.