# Natural Language Toolkit: WordNet stemmer interface # # Copyright (C) 2001-2018 NLTK Project # Author: Steven Bird # Edward Loper # URL: # For license information, see LICENSE.TXT from __future__ import unicode_literals from nltk.corpus.reader.wordnet import NOUN from nltk.corpus import wordnet from nltk.compat import python_2_unicode_compatible @python_2_unicode_compatible class WordNetLemmatizer(object): """ WordNet Lemmatizer Lemmatize using WordNet's built-in morphy function. Returns the input word unchanged if it cannot be found in WordNet. >>> from nltk.stem import WordNetLemmatizer >>> wnl = WordNetLemmatizer() >>> print(wnl.lemmatize('dogs')) dog >>> print(wnl.lemmatize('churches')) church >>> print(wnl.lemmatize('aardwolves')) aardwolf >>> print(wnl.lemmatize('abaci')) abacus >>> print(wnl.lemmatize('hardrock')) hardrock """ def __init__(self): pass def lemmatize(self, word, pos=NOUN): lemmas = wordnet._morphy(word, pos) return min(lemmas, key=len) if lemmas else word def __repr__(self): return '' # unload wordnet def teardown_module(module=None): from nltk.corpus import wordnet wordnet._unload()