I am working on a text processing task in a Kaggle notebook and facing a LookupErrorwhen using NLTK's WordNetLemmatizer. Despite my efforts to download the required NLTK resources, the error continues to occur. Below, I have provided the details of my preprocessing function, the error message, and the steps I've taken to resolve the issue.
Preprocessing Function:
def preprocess_str_ml(txt):
tokenizer = TweetTokenizer()
lemmatizer = WordNetLemmatizer()
# convert all characters in the string to lower case
txt = txt.lower()
# remove non-english characters, punctuation and numbers
txt = re.sub('[^a-zA-Z]', ' ', txt)
# Tokenize the text
tokens = tokenizer.tokenize(txt)
# Lemmatization and removing stop words
lemmatized_tokens = [lemmatizer.lemmatize(token) for token in tokens]
txt = ' '.join(lemmatized_tokens)
txt = remove_stop_words(txt)
return txt
Error Message:
LookupError Traceback (most recent call last)
File /opt/conda/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nltk/corpus/util.py:80, in LazyCorpusLoader.__load(self)
79 except LookupError as e:
---> 80 try: root = nltk.data.find('{}/{}'.format(self.subdir, zip_name))
81 except LookupError: raise e
File /opt/conda/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nltk/data.py:653, in find(resource_name, paths)
652 resource_not_found = '\n%s\n%s\n%s' % (sep, msg, sep)
--> 653 raise LookupError(resource_not_found)
LookupError:
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Resource 'corpora/wordnet.zip/wordnet/.zip/' not found. Please
use the NLTK Downloader to obtain the resource: >>>
nltk.download()
Searched in:
- '/root/nltk_data'
- '/usr/share/nltk_data'
- '/usr/local/share/nltk_data'
- '/usr/lib/nltk_data'
- '/usr/local/lib/nltk_data'
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- I have tried downloading the complete NLTK package using
nltk.download("all"). - I also attempted downloading the
"averaged_perceptron_tagger", as some forums suggested. These attempts were made within a Kaggle notebook environment.Despite these efforts, the error remains unresolved.
How can I effectively resolve this LookupErrorin the Kaggle notebook environment? Are there additional steps or configurations required for setting up NLTK for lemmatization with the WordNet Lemmatizer in Kaggle?