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>
> I am working on a program that is written in Python 2.7 to be compatible
> with the POS tagger that I import from Pattern. The tagger identifies all
> the nouns in a text. I need to exclude from the tagger any text that is
> within quotation marks, and also any word that begins with an upper case
> letter (including words at the beginning of sentences).
>
> Any advice on coding that would be gratefully received. Thanks.
>

Perhaps overkill, but wanted to make sure you knew about the Natural
Language Toolkit:  http://www.nltk.org/.