Can't make Stanford POS tagger working in nltk

Question

I\'m trying to work with Stanford POS tagger within NLTK. I\'m using the example shown here:

http://www.nltk.org/api/nltk.tag.html#module-nltk.tag.stanford

I

Answer 1

Lot has changed since this solution.Here is my solution to the code,after I too faced the error.Basically increasing JAVA heapsize solved it.

import os
java_path = "C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk1.8.0_102\\bin\\java.exe"
os.environ['JAVAHOME'] = java_path

from nltk.tag.stanford import StanfordPOSTagger
path_to_model = "stanford-postagger-2015-12-09/models/english-bidirectional-distsim.tagger"
path_to_jar = "stanford-postagger-2015-12-09/stanford-postagger.jar"
tagger=StanfordPOSTagger(path_to_model, path_to_jar)
tagger.java_options='-mx4096m'          ### Setting higher memory limit for long sentences
sentence = 'This is testing'
print tagger.tag(sentence.split())

Answer 2

The best thing to do is simply to download the latest version of the Stanford POS tagger where the dependency problem is now fixed (March 2018).

wget https://nlp.stanford.edu/software/stanford-postagger-full-2017-06-09.zip