Re: Irregular Plurals and Ablaut Plurals

Olly Betts <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 03:14:12PM -0400, Nathan Wilson wrote:
> Can these instances be handled in the exception1 routine for the English
> stemmer?
> 
> 'men'    (<-'man')
> 'women'              (<-'woman')
> 'children'             (<-'child')
> 'oxen'   (<-'ox')
> 'ran'       (<-'run')

FWIW, the documentation explicitly discusses this issue (including all your
examples except ran/run) - see section 6 here:

http://snowball.tartarus.org/texts/introduction.html

Cheers,
    Olly
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