python - trouble importing stanford pos tagger into nltk

Question

This is probably a very trivial question. I am trying to use the stanford pos tagger through nltk given here The problem is that my nltk lib doesnt contain the stanford module. So I copied the same into the appropriate folder and compiled the same. Now when i try to run an example the module is getting detected but not the class inside the module. Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong?? Again this is probably very dumb.

>>> from nltk.tag import stanford 
>>> st = StanfordTagger('bidirection-distsim-wsj-0-18.tagger')

I used py_compile to compile the stanford.py file. Am i missing something

Answer 1

You are only importing stanford. In order to access StanfordTagger you need to use either:

>>> from nltk.tag.stanford import StanfordTagger

(assuming that `StanfordTagger is not further nested in a module) or access it by

>>> st = stanford.StanfordTagger('bidirection-distsim-wsj-0-18.tagger')