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Python 3 Text Processing with NLTK 3 Cookbook - Second Edition
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Python 3 Text Processing with NLTK 3 Cookbook - Second Edition

by Jacob Perkins
August 2014
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
304 pages
7h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Correcting verb forms

It's fairly common to find incorrect verb forms in real-world language. For example, the correct form of is our children learning? is are our children learning? The verb is should only be used with singular nouns, while are is for plural nouns, such as children. We can correct these mistakes by creating verb correction mappings that are used depending on whether there's a plural or singular noun in the chunk.

Getting ready

We first need to define the verb correction mappings in transforms.py. We'll create two mappings, one for plural to singular and another for singular to plural:

plural_verb_forms = { ('is', 'VBZ'): ('are', 'VBP'), ('was', 'VBD'): ('were', 'VBD') } singular_verb_forms = { ('are', 'VBP'): ('is', 'VBZ'), ('were', ...
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