diff --git a/nltk/classify/scikitlearn.py b/nltk/classify/scikitlearn.py
index 1854038d4d..144d67003e 100644
--- a/nltk/classify/scikitlearn.py
+++ b/nltk/classify/scikitlearn.py
@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
+# Natural Language Toolkit: Interface to scikit-learn classifiers
+#
+# Author: Lars Buitinck <L.J.Buitinck@uva.nl>
+# URL: <http://www.nltk.org/>
+# For license information, see LICENSE.TXT
+
 from nltk.classify.api import ClassifierI
+from nltk.probability import DictionaryProbDist
 
 import numpy as np
 
@@ -25,8 +32,10 @@ def batch_classify(self, featuresets):
         y = self._clf.predict(X)
         return [self._index_label[int(yi)] for yi in y]
 
-    def classify(self, featureset):
-        return self.batch_classify([featureset])
+    def batch_prob_classify(self, featuresets):
+        X = self._featuresets_to_array(featuresets)
+        y_proba = self._clf.predict_proba(X)
+        return [self._make_probdist(y_proba[i]) for i in xrange(len(y_proba))]
 
     def labels(self):
         return self._label_index.keys()
@@ -72,6 +81,10 @@ def _featuresets_to_array(self, featuresets):
 
         return X
 
+    def _make_probdist(self, y_proba):
+        return DictionaryProbDist(dict((self._index_label[i], p)
+                                       for i, p in enumerate(y_proba)))
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     from nltk.classify.util import names_demo, binary_names_demo_features