Re: Irregular Plurals and Ablaut Plurals
Kasun Gajasinghe <[email protected]>
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On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Nathan Wilson <[email protected]>wrote: > I am using CIS Documentum 6.5 SP3 which is using Snowball for its > stemming logic. I have noticed that Snowball does not handle Irregular or > Ablaut Plurals. > > Can these instances be handled in the exception1 routine for the English > stemmer? > > > > ‘men’ (<-‘man’) > > ‘women’ (<-‘woman’) > > ‘children’ (<-‘child’) > > ‘oxen’ (<-‘ox’) > > ‘ran’ (<-‘run’) > > > > There are more and care should be taken to not explode the exception1 > routine, but inclusion of the more common occurrences may be useful. > > Is this where Irregular and Ablaut Plurals can be handled, if not is there > a place to handle such stemming? > > If these instances can be handled here is there any idea on when or if this > will be included? > What you described is more related to Lemmatizing rather than Stemming. There's a project called "MorphAdorner" which does lemmatizing. I don't have much knowledge about it, but you may have look. All queries you specified are correctly lemmatized to their singular/root form by it. http://morphadorner.northwestern.edu/morphadorner/lemmatizer/example/ HTH --Kasun ~~~*******'''''''''''''*******~~~ Kasun Gajasinghe, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Blog: http://kasunbg.blogspot.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/kasunbg _______________________________________________ Snowball-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.tartarus.org/mailman/listinfo/snowball-discuss