Why is Python so much used for text processing and natural language research? [closed]?

I mostly know people that uses perl for that purpose. A possible explanation is that python is very easy to learn and has more to it than merely syntaxic sugar as you may believe at first sight. Things like introspections, or iterators that are great when you want to do tasks like successive filterings.

Another reason maybe that some languages are quite hostile to beginners (and I won't say which ones I'm thinking about to avoid starting a flame war).

1. Thanks for the answer. I am a researcher and I have a large NLP research group on the same floor as mine that primarily uses Python for all there research.

– euphoria83 Dec 8 '10 at 20:58.

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