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		queensnake on Jan 17, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Natural Language Processing with Python, free onli... No SVM support either. I could try to add it I guess; libSVM has Python bindings already.

jnbiche on Jan 18, 2012 [–]

As far as I know, NLTK has no C dependencies other than its general dependency on NumPy. I think they are keeping the toolkit in pure Python on purpose (but I may be wrong about that). That said there are SVM implementations in pure Python -- PyMVPA, for one.

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