# NLTKTextSplitter

> **Class** in `langchain_text_splitters`

📖 [View in docs](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-text-splitters/nltk/NLTKTextSplitter)

Splitting text using NLTK package.

## Signature

```python
NLTKTextSplitter(
    self,
    separator: str = '\n\n',
    language: str = 'english',
    *,
    use_span_tokenize: bool = False,
    **kwargs: Any = {},
)
```

## Parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|------|------|----------|-------------|
| `separator` | `str` | No | The separator to use when combining splits. (default: `'\n\n'`) |
| `language` | `str` | No | The language to use. (default: `'english'`) |
| `use_span_tokenize` | `bool` | No | Whether to use `span_tokenize` instead of `sent_tokenize`. (default: `False`) |

## Extends

- `TextSplitter`

## Constructors

```python
__init__(
    self,
    separator: str = '\n\n',
    language: str = 'english',
    *,
    use_span_tokenize: bool = False,
    **kwargs: Any = {},
) -> None
```

| Name | Type |
|------|------|
| `separator` | `str` |
| `language` | `str` |
| `use_span_tokenize` | `bool` |


## Methods

- [`split_text()`](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-text-splitters/nltk/NLTKTextSplitter/split_text)

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