Word lemmatization can help us to improve the similarity of sentences. In this tutorial, we will introduce on how to implement word lemmatization with nltk. You can learn how to do by following our tutorial.
What is word lemmatization?
Here we use some words to show you word lemmatization.
cats : cat
books : book
To get word lemmatization with ntlk, we can do like this:
Import library
import nltk from nltk.stem import WordNetLemmatizer
Download resources
nltk.download('wordnet')Implement word lemmatization
lemmatizer = WordNetLemmatizer()
print(lemmatizer.lemmatize('books'))
The result is: book