POS tagging in Lord of the Flies
In this exercise, you will perform part-of-speech tagging on a famous passage from one of the most well-known novels of all time, Lord of the Flies, authored by William Golding.
The passage is available as lotf
and has already been printed to the console.
This exercise is part of the course
Feature Engineering for NLP in Python
Exercise instructions
- Load the
en_core_web_sm
model. - Create a doc object for
lotf
usingnlp()
. - Using the
text
andpos_
attributes, generate tokens and their corresponding POS tags.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Load the en_core_web_sm model
nlp = spacy.load(____)
# Create a Doc object
doc = ___(___)
# Generate tokens and pos tags
pos = [(token.____, token.____) for token in doc]
print(pos)