nltk Stemming Porter stemmer

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Example

  1. Import PorterStemmer and initialize

     from nltk.stem import PorterStemmer
     from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize
     ps = PorterStemmer()
    
  2. Stem a list of words

     example_words = ["python","pythoner","pythoning","pythoned","pythonly"]
    
     for w in example_words:
         print(ps.stem(w))
    

    Result:

     python
     python
     python
     python
     pythonli
    
  3. Stem a sentence after tokenizing it.

     new_text = "It is important to by very pythonly while you are pythoning with python. All pythoners have pythoned poorly at least once."
    
     word_tokens = word_tokenize(new_text)
     for w in word_tokens:
         print(ps.stem(w))   # Passing word tokens into stem method of Porter Stemmer
    

    Result:

     It
     is
     import
     to
     by
     veri
     pythonli
     while
     you
     are
     python
     with
     python
     .
     all
     python
     have
     python
     poorli
     at
     least
     onc
     .
    


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