from stemming.porter2 import stem
documents = ['got',"get"]
documents = [[stem(word) for word in sentence.split(" ")] for sentence in documents]
print(documents)
The result is :
[['got'], ['get']]
Can someone help to explain this ? Thank you !
What you want is a lemmatizer instead of a stemmer. The difference is subtle.
Generally, a stemmer drops suffixes as much as possible and in some cases handles an exception list of words for words that cannot find a normalized form by simply dropping suffixes.
A lemmatizer tries to find the "basic"/root/infinitive form of a word and usually, it requires specialized rules for different languages.
See
Lemmatization using the NLTK implementation of the morphy lemmatizer requires the correct part-of-speech (POS) tag to be fairly accurate.
Avoid (or in fact never) try to lemmatize individual word in isolation. Try lemmatizing a fully POS tagged sentence, e.g.
from nltk import word_tokenize, pos_tag
from nltk import wordnet as wn
def penn2morphy(penntag, returnNone=False, default_to_noun=False):
morphy_tag = {'NN':wn.NOUN, 'JJ':wn.ADJ,
'VB':wn.VERB, 'RB':wn.ADV}
try:
return morphy_tag[penntag[:2]]
except:
if returnNone:
return None
elif default_to_noun:
return 'n'
else:
return ''
With the penn2morphy helper function, you need to convert the POS tag from pos_tag() to the morphy tags and you can then:
>>> from nltk.stem import WordNetLemmatizer
>>> wnl = WordNetLemmatizer()
>>> sent = "He got up in bed at 8am."
>>> [(token, penn2morphy(tag)) for token, tag in pos_tag(word_tokenize(sent))]
[('He', ''), ('got', 'v'), ('up', ''), ('in', ''), ('bed', 'n'), ('at', ''), ('8am', ''), ('.', '')]
>>> [wnl.lemmatize(token, pos=penn2morphy(tag, default_to_noun=True)) for token, tag in pos_tag(word_tokenize(sent))]
['He', 'get', 'up', 'in', 'bed', 'at', '8am', '.']
For convenience you can also try the pywsd lemmatizer.
>>> from pywsd.utils import lemmatize_sentence
Warming up PyWSD (takes ~10 secs)... took 7.196984529495239 secs.
>>> sent = "He got up in bed at 8am."
>>> lemmatize_sentence(sent)
['he', 'get', 'up', 'in', 'bed', 'at', '8am', '.']