This post is cross-posted on clojurelx, a new project blog
The NLTK is a natural choice for students of linguistics and computer science. It has matured into a stable project, its users are very active, and it is now used outside of academia. Those who are into functional programming can use the Scheme Natural Language Toolkit, or learn from the Natural Language Processing for the Working Programmer, and those who needs the JVM can turn to ScalaNLP. So why brother with Clojure?
