example of using nltk to get bigram frequencies

bigram_freq.py

>>> from nltk import word_tokenize
>>> from nltk.collocations import BigramCollocationFinder
>>> text = "obama says that obama says that the war is happening"
>>> finder = BigramCollocationFinder.from_words(word_tokenize(text))
>>> finder.items()[0:5]
[(('obama', 'says'), 2),
 (('says', 'that'), 2),
 (('is', 'happening'), 1),
 (('that', 'obama'), 1),
 (('that', 'the'), 1)]

runfile('/Users/mjalal/embeddings/glove/GloVe-1.2/most_common_bigram.py', wdir='/Users/mjalal/embeddings/glove/GloVe-1.2')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/mjalal/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py", line 3296, in run_code
exec(code_obj, self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns)
File "", line 1, in
runfile('/Users/mjalal/embeddings/glove/GloVe-1.2/most_common_bigram.py', wdir='/Users/mjalal/embeddings/glove/GloVe-1.2')
File "/Applications/PyCharm.app/Contents/helpers/pydev/_pydev_bundle/pydev_umd.py", line 197, in runfile
pydev_imports.execfile(filename, global_vars, local_vars) # execute the script
File "/Applications/PyCharm.app/Contents/helpers/pydev/_pydev_imps/_pydev_execfile.py", line 18, in execfile
exec(compile(contents+"\n", file, 'exec'), glob, loc)
File "/Users/mjalal/embeddings/glove/GloVe-1.2/most_common_bigram.py", line 6, in
print(finder.items()[0:5])
AttributeError: 'BigramCollocationFinder' object has no attribute 'items'