I want to parse news stories and automatically tag them. In order to do this I'm using the NLTK library for python.

What I need to do is find the list of proper nouns that occur in the text. We're looking for proper nouns (like 'Scotland'), not common nouns (like …

I want to find band and people names in some text and automatically tag articles that feature the same person and/or band. I'm investigating the python NLTK to do this.

Installation

First install nltk into your virtualenv:

$ pip install nltk

We need some corpora (data files containing text). This …