Category: Docker

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Natural Language Processing – Vader sentiment analysis with NLTK

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) (https://www.nltk.org) provides an excellent starting point for natural language processing projects. In this blog we wanted to explore the creation and use of a custom docker image to allow one of the components of NLTK, that is the VADER sentiment analysis tool (https://www.nltk.org/_modules/nltk/sentiment/vader.html). A key advantage of VADER (Valence Aware […]

Using Docker with bind mount points

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

Docker, https://docs.docker.com/get-started/overview, is an open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications. Docker enables separation of ‘containerised’ applications from local computing infrastructure. It’s a popular way of preparing programmes to share with others (https://hub.docker.com) and to run on remote computers also. Using docker means not having to have complex software server applications installed locally. Instead […]