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Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:32:20 -0400
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On 9/7/2012 3:02 PM, subhabangalore@gmail.com wrote:
> Dear Group,
> I am trying to use NLTK and its statistical classifiers. The system is working fine but I am trying to use my own data, instead of things like,
>
> from nltk.corpus import brown
> from nltk.corpus import names
>
> If any one can kindly guide me up.

from mypack import mydata

The important thing is that mydata have the proper format.
I would think that the nltk docs have instructions for and examples of 
using personal data

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy