How is this actually even used? about tutorials HOT 1 CLOSED

Do I now have to read the files using file.read() or somesuch?

Yes, exactly. For most text corpora, you need to write your own code to open these files.

The usual pattern to open a file:

with open (<filepath>) as file_open:
    text = file_open.read()

If you want to open multiple files in a directory, look at this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3207973.

Is the general goal to not use the corpora for analysis but to use them as trained data sets to analyze some other texts that we find?

Both, in fact! Some repos are simply for reading (https://github.com/cltk/latin_text_latin_library) while others just for training (https://github.com/cltk/latin_training_set_sentence_cltk). Others could be used for both, perhaps! (For example, using a treebank to either train a predictive model or to do statistics).

What is your goal in using the CLTK?

Closing but post back here with other questions.

from tutorials.