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 > > connection is behind a proxy server so

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

Re: Help needed in downloading Brown corpus

2010-05-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
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 > connection is behind a proxy server so it's creating a problem. Since I > don't know a bit

Re: Help needed in downloading Brown corpus

2010-05-01 Thread Peter Pearson
On Sat, 1 May 2010 06:28:33 -0700 (PDT), 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 > connection is behind a proxy server so it's creating a problem. Since > I don't know a

Re: Help needed in downloading Brown corpus

2010-05-01 Thread Shashank Singh
try this: run this in your terminal before you hit nltk.download(). Don't forget to set username, password and proxy info for your own system.(in PROXY_INFO) import urllib2 PROXY_INFO = { 'user' : username, 'pass' : password, 'host' : proxy_server, 'port' : proxy_port } proxy_support =

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