Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK)   nltk.org            

Authors: Steven Bird <sb@csse.unimelb.edu.au>
         Edward Loper <edloper@gradient.cis.upenn.edu>
         Ewan Klein <ewan@inf.ed.ac.uk>

Copyright (C) 2007 University of Pennsylvania

For license information, see LICENSE.TXT

NLTK - the Natural Language Toolkit - is a suite of open source
Python modules, data sets and tutorials supporting research and
development in natural language processing.

Documentation: A substantial amount of documentation about how
to use NLTK, including a textbook and API documention, is
available from the NLTK website: http://nltk.org/

  - The book teaches students how to use the toolkit, in the
    context of performing specific tasks. They are appropriate for
    anyone who wishes to learn how to use the toolkit.
    http://nltk.org/index.php/Book

  - The toolkit's reference documentation describes every module,
    interface, class, method, function, and variable in the toolkit.
    This documentation should be useful to both users and developers.  
    http://nltk.org/doc/api/

Mailing Lists: There are five mailing lists associated with NLTK:

  - nltk-announce: Public information and announcements
      about NLTK (very low volume)
      http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nltk-announce
  - nltk-users: Discussions between NLTK users
      http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nltk-users
  - nltk-devel: Discussions between NLTK developers
      http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nltk-devel
  - nltk-commits: Subversion commit logs for NLTK
      http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nltk-commits
  - nltk-teach: Discussions between people teaching courses using NLTK
      (closed list) please contact Steven Bird <sb@csse.unimelb.edu.au>

Contributing: If you would like to contribute to NLTK,
    please see http://nltk.org/index.php/Contribute

Redistributing: NLTK source code is distributed under the Gnu Public License.
    NLTK documentation is distributed under the Creative Commons
    ShareAlike License.  NLTK may be freely redistributed, subject to
    the provisions of these licenses.

Citing: Please cite NLTK as follows:
    Bird, Steven, Edward Loper and Ewan Klein (2007).
    Natural Language Toolkit.  http://nltk.org/
