Anyone hear when NLTK 3.0 will be out?

There's a Python 3 branch:

https://github.com/nltk/nltk/tree/nltk-py3k

It's a transformation of the trunk and gets updated every so often to keep up with changes. You can check it out directly from git (instead of using the NLTK installation) and give it a shot.

git clone git://github.com/nltk/nltk.git nltk --branch nltk-py3k

I haven't used it personally, but I assume it works.

There is a "2and3" branch in the main nltk repo - see https://github.com/nltk/nltk/tree/2and3

It appears to be getting updated regularly, although I haven't tried it myself.

Here's the alpha release: https://github.com/nltk/nltk3-alpha

Alternative NLP: TextBlob is fully Python 3. https://github.com/sloria/TextBlob

Tutorial: http://www.stevenloria.com/how-to-build-a-text-classification-system-with-python-and-textblob/