java - 如何识别名词的复数

Question

我见过有人问过类似的问题，但没有任何好的答案。我现在遇到了同样的问题，有人可以帮忙吗？

见下文：

输入：单词列表

输出：识别复数形式的名词，如果可能的话将它们转换成单数形式

Answer 1

WordNet will be able to help with stripping plurals. It is a full morphological dictionary of English language.

http://wordnet.princeton.edu/

The JAWS is a simple Java API which talks to WordNet, though others exist.

http://lyle.smu.edu/~tspell/jaws/index.html

Note, WordNet will not perfectly deal with the various idiosyncrasies of English, from their FAQ:

Along with a set of irregular forms (e.g. children - child), it uses a sequence of simple rules, stripping common English endings until it finds a word form present in WordNet. Furthermore, it assumes its input is a valid inflected form. So, it will take "childes" to "child", even though "childes" is not a word.