CODE EXAMPLE FOR PYTHON

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import re
import nltk
from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize
nltk.download('punkt')
sentences = word_tokenize("I love to learn NLP 
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#for i in range(len(sentences)):
sentences = [word.lower() for word in sentences if re.match('^[a-zA-Z]+', word)]  
sentences