diff --git a/bin/install_nltk_data b/bin/install_nltk_data
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+# bin/install_nltk_data
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+source $BIN_DIR/utils
+
+echo "-----> Starting nltk data installation"
+
+# Assumes NLTK_DATA environment variable is already set
+# $ heroku config:set NLTK_DATA='/app/nltk_data'
+
+# Install the nltk data
+# NOTE: The following command installs the wordnet corpora,
+# so you may want to change for your specific needs.
+# See http://www.nltk.org/data.html
+python -m nltk.downloader wordnet
+python -m nltk.downloader punkt
+python -m nltk.downloader hmm_treebank_pos_tagger
+python -m nltk.downloader maxent_treebank_pos_tagger
+python -m nltk.downloader maxent_ne_chunker
+python -m nltk.downloader stopwords
+
+# If using Textblob, use this instead:
+# python -m textblob.download_corpora lite
+
+# Open the NLTK_DATA directory
+cd ${NLTK_DATA}
+
+# Delete all of the zip files
+find . -name "*.zip" -type f -delete
+
+echo "-----> Finished nltk data installation"
diff --git a/bin/post_compile b/bin/post_compile
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+# bin/post_compile
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+if [ -f bin/install_nltk_data ]; then
+    echo "-----> Running install_nltk_data"
+    chmod +x bin/install_nltk_data
+    bin/install_nltk_data
+fi
+
+echo "-----> Post-compile done"