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