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Singularize english words (R pluralize) #177

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francoisfauteux opened this issue Aug 13, 2021 · 0 comments
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Singularize english words (R pluralize) #177

francoisfauteux opened this issue Aug 13, 2021 · 0 comments

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Testing with R pluralize on vwr english.words from CELEX (~66K) returns ~600 inconsistencies:

library(pluralize)
library(vwr)
dat<-data.frame(word=english.words,sing=singularize(english.words))
dat<-dat[which(dat$word!=dat$sing & !dat$sing %in% english.words),]

Examples:

abdomen: abdoman
always: alway
amaryllis: amarylli
appendicitis: appendiciti
asbestos: asbesto
axis: axi

(...) and so on.

One possible workaround is to filter singulars that are not in a selected dictionary or lexicon.

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