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QingYun
QingYun

Reputation: 869

How to extract an English word's root and affixes?

I'm a Chinese student and I'm learning English words using a flashcard software. I think highlighting a word's root and affixes will be very useful to remember that word. So I'm looking for an algorithm or a look-up table which could extract the roots and affixes.

For example:

foo("agriculture") -> ["agri", "cult", "ure"]
foo("anniversary") -> ["ann", "vers", "ary"]

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1290

Answers (1)

Pierre
Pierre

Reputation: 1246

You need to perform morphological analysis. That is, to split the input text into morphemes.

I found this tool you can try online: http://nlpdotnet.com/services/Morphparser.aspx

Also, you might want to check ACL wiki (http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Morphology_software_for_English), there is a bunch of tools you might be interested in.

Good luck.

Upvotes: 1

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