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-NLTK, the Natural Language Toolkit, is a suite of Python libraries and
-programs for symbolic and statistical natural language processing.
-NLTK includes graphical demonstrations and sample data. It is accompanied
-by extensive documentation, including tutorials that explain the underlying
-concepts behind the language processing tasks supported by the toolkit.
+NLTK is a leading platform for building Python programs to work with human
+language data.  It provides easy-to-use interfaces to over 50 corpora and
+lexical resources such as WordNet, along with a suite of text processing
+libraries for classification, tokenization, stemming, tagging, parsing,
+and semantic reasoning, and an active discussion forum.
 
-NLTK is ideally suited to students who are learning NLP (natural language
-processing) or conducting research in NLP or closely related areas,
-including empirical linguistics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence,
-information retrieval, and machine learning. NLTK has been used successfully
-as a teaching tool, as an individual study tool, and as a platform for
-prototyping and building research systems.
+Thanks to a hands-on guide introducing programming fundamentals alongside
+topics in computational linguistics, NLTK is suitable for linguists,
+engineers, students, educators, researchers, and industry users alike.
+NLTK is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.  Best of all, NLTK is
+a free, open source, community-driven project.
+
+NLTK has been called "a wonderful tool for teaching, and working in,
+computational linguistics using Python" and "an amazing library to play
+with natural language".
 
 WWW: http://www.nltk.org/