Help needed in downloading Brown corpus

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sat, 01 May 2010 06:28:33 -0700, Adil Kaleem wrote:

> Hi all
> I'm a masters student in NLP. I needed to download the Brown corpus. I'm
> unable to download from nltk.org with the python CLI. My network
> connection is behind a proxy server so it's creating a problem. Since I
> don't know a bit of python, so unable to figure a way out. 

This has nothing to do with Python, it is a network issue. Talk to your 
network administrator and get him to fix the proxy, or give you a way to 
bypass it. Or if you have an internet connection at home, download it 
from there.


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Steven