2013/7/12 Lars Buitinck <[email protected]>:
> 2013/7/11 Tom Fawcett <[email protected]>:
>>> On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Joel Nothman <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> (But I'm also not convinced that NLTK is the right tool for a lot of 
>>> large-scale feature extraction jobs.)
>>
>> I’m curious – why?
>
> I guess because it's terribly slow. I recently tried to cluster a
> sample of Wikipedia text at the word level. I found that about 75% of
> the time was spent in MiniBatchKMeans.fit, while the rest of it was
> spent inside nltk.word_tokenize (!)

That does not sound that bad to me.

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Olivier
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