/NLTKForumScraper

An argument extraction tool that scrapes medical treatment reviews from health forums and then mines the posts for arguments

Primary LanguagePython

NLTKForumScraper

Getting started

Make sure that you have the following Python packages installed and that your running Python3.3 or 3.4

pip3.4 install requests
pip3.4 install nltk
pip3.4 install beautifulsoup4
pip3.4 install pymysql

Given that we will be making use of a number of NLTK Tools, its easier to just download the whole package. Just open up a terminal screen and start python. Proceed to download the nltk packages as such:

python3.4
>>> import nltk
>>> nltk.download()