Question

I'm not able to execute the below lines, the error is

"UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xcb in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)"

File "D:\\Py 64\\ anaconda\\lib\\site-packages\\nltk\\tag__init__.py", line 100, in pos_tag tagger = load(_POS_TAGGER)

File "D:\\Py 64\\ anaconda\\lib\\site-packages\\nltk\\data.py", line 779, in load resource_val = pickle.load(opened_resource, encoding='iso-8859-1')

My error is not just in data.py, but also in init .py.

Note:- I have changed the code in data.py, line 779 as mentioned here

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text = word_tokenize("They refuse to permit us to obtain the refuse permit")

nltk.pos_tag(text)

Answer 1

I believe this problem is fixed using nltk 3.0.3 and the lastest maxent_treebank_pos_tagger model.

To install nltk, use

pip install -U nltk

Make sure the pip you are calling is for Python3 .

Once nltk is installed, open the Python3 interpreter, type:

>>> import nltk
>>> nltk.download()

and use the GUI to install maxent_treebank_pos_tagger . It's located under the models tab:

models > maxent_treebank_pos_tagger