NLTK is widely considered the most comprehensive Python library for NLP. It is an essential library that supports tasks like classification, tagging, stemming, parsing, and semantic reasoning.

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Python’s popularity in the data science and machine learning communities, combined with the ease of use and extensive documentation of NLTK, has made it a go-to choice for many NLP projects.