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Asked: 2026-06-17T01:53:19+00:00

I have a text file with plain text sentences in the Afrikaans language. I

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I have a text file with plain text sentences in the Afrikaans language. I would like to be able to perform nltk corpus functions on this text file, but can’t find any examples of how to do this.

I would like to do things such as:

mytext.concordance("woord")
mytext.similar("woord")

Can anyone help me?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Managed to figure something out:

    # How to load a text file as a corpus.
import nltk
from nltk.corpus import PlaintextCorpusReader
from nltk.corpus.util import LazyCorpusLoader
afrikaans = LazyCorpusLoader('afrikaans', PlaintextCorpusReader, r'(?!\.).*\.txt')
afrikaans.sents()[1]
af = nltk.Text(afrikaans.words())
af.concordance("mense")

    This assumes your corpora text file is in C:\nltk_data\corpora\afrikaans\afrikaans.txt

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