Named Entity Recognition for NLTK in Python. Identifying the NE

Question

I need to classify words into their parts of speech. Like a verb, a noun, an adverb etc.. I used the

nltk.word_tokenize() #to identify word in a sentence 
nltk.         


        

Answer 1

This answer may be off base, and in which case I'll delete it, as I don't have NLTK installed here to try it, but I think you can just do:

   >>> sent3[2].node
   'NE'

sent3[2][0] returns the first child of the tree, not the node itself

Edit: I tried this when I got home, and it does indeed work.