As of TextBlob 0.11.0, TextBlob uses NLTK's averaged perceptron tagger by default. This package is no longer necessary.
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A fast and accurate part-of-speech tagger based on the Averaged Perceptron. For use with TextBlob_.
Implementation by Matthew Honnibal, a.k.a. syllog1sm <https://github.com/syllog1sm/>. Read more about it here <http://honnibal.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/a-good-part-of-speechpos-tagger-in-about-200-lines-of-python/>.
If you have pip <http://www.pip-installer.org/>_ installed (you should), run ::
$ pip install -U textblob-aptagger.. code-block:: python
>>> from textblob import TextBlob
>>> from textblob_aptagger import PerceptronTagger
>>> blob = TextBlob("Simple is better than complex.", pos_tagger=PerceptronTagger())
>>> blob.tags
[('Simple', u'NN'), ('is', u'VBZ'), ('better', u'JJR'), ('than', u'IN'), ('complex', u'JJ')]MIT licensed. See the bundled LICENSE <https://github.com/sloria/textblob-aptagger/blob/master/LICENSE>_ file for more details.
.. _TextBlob: https://textblob.readthedocs.org/