Re: Help needed in downloading Brown corpus

2010-05-01 Thread Adil Kaleem
On May 2, 6:30 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 01 May 2010 06:28:33 -0700, Adil Kaleem wrote: > > Hi all > > I'm a masters student in NLP. I needed to download the Brown corpus. I'm > > unable to download from nltk.org with the python CLI. My network >

Re: Help needed in downloading Brown corpus

2010-05-01 Thread Adil Kaleem
On May 1, 10:54 pm, Peter Pearson wrote: > > As I understand it (from Wikipedia), the Brown Corpus is a > collection of samples of modern American English text, and > nltk.org provides a Python toolkit for exploring said Corpus. > > I'm trying to figure out whether you're trying to get the > Corp

Help needed in downloading Brown corpus

2010-05-01 Thread Adil Kaleem
Hi all I'm a masters student in NLP. I needed to download the Brown corpus. I'm unable to download from nltk.org with the python CLI. My network connection is behind a proxy server so it's creating a problem. Since I don't know a bit of python, so unable to figure a way out. Can someone help me in