Is there any way to add a new location to the list of places where nltk looks for the wordnet corpus?

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Published on 2012-11-01T04:25:16Z Indexed on 2012/11/08 5:19 UTC
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I can't use the nltk wordnet lemmatizer because I can't download the wordnet corpus on my university computer due to access rights issues.

I get the following error when I try to do so:

**********************************************************************   Resource 'corpora/wordnet' not found.  Please use the NLTK   Downloader to obtain the resource:  >>> nltk.download()   Searched in:
    - '/home/XX/nltk_data'
    - '/usr/share/nltk_data'
    - '/usr/local/share/nltk_data'
    - '/usr/lib/nltk_data'
    - '/usr/local/lib/nltk_data'
**********************************************************************

When I had the same issue at home, I could resolve it by two ways:

  1. Using nltk.download(), the standard way and
  2. Creating a new folder at location /home/XX/nltk_data and just pasting the corpus directory inside it.

Now at the university I only have access to /home/XX/bin and not /home/XX directly. So is there anyway I could paste the wordnet corpus into /home/XX/bin and then somehow make nltk look for the corpus in that folder?

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