Using NLTK corpora with AWS Lambda functions in Python

Question

I\'m encountering a difficulty when using NLTK corpora (in particular stop words) in AWS Lambda. I\'m aware that the corpora need to be downloaded and have done so with NLTK

Answer 1

If your stopwords corpus is under /nltk_data (based on root, not under your home directory), you need to tell the nltk before you try to access a corpus:

from nltk.corpus import stopwords
nltk.data.path.append("/nltk_data")

stopwords = stopwords.words('english')