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+# Grasp: A python3 tool for web extraction and sentiment analysis
+## Goal: Releasing a well documented version equipped with a POS tagger and example sentiment analysers 
+The code is currently in one .py file. Almost done.The work shall be divided into the following: 
+1. Using snippets from the code with examples in ipynbs to demonstate functionality
+2. Fixing issues with the current POS.
+3. Building and posting a sentiment analyser
+
+ Grasp is a web mining module for Python3. It has tools for:
+ * Data Mining: web services (Google, Twitter, Wikipedia), web crawler, HTML DOM parsER
+ * Natural Language Processing: part-of speech taggers, n-gram search, sentiment analysis, WordNet
+ * Machine Learning: vector space model, clustering, classification (KNN, SVM, Perceptron)
+ * Network Analysis: graph centrality and visualization.
+## Version
+3.4+
+## License
+BSD