Lemmatization of non-English words?

python nltk information-retrieval information-extraction lemmatization
Crista23 picture Crista23 · Mar 3, 2014 · Viewed 10.2k times · Source

I would like to apply lemmatization to reduce the inflectional forms of words. I know that for English language WordNet provides such a functionality, but I am also interested in applying lemmatization for Dutch, French, Spanish and Italian words. Is there any trustworthy and confirmed way to go about this? Thank you!

Answer

alvas picture alvas · Mar 3, 2014

Try pattern library from CLIPS, they have support for German, English, Spanish, French and Italian. Just what you needed: http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pattern

Unfortunately it only works with Python 2, no support for Python3 provided yet.

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