Finding synonyms and the basic form of tilted words

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I am looking for a tool in Java that would allow me to do the following things:

1) Find for a tilted word its basic form. Example:

For the words "connection", "connecting", "connects" and etc, it will return the word "connect".
For the words "running", "runs" it will return the word "run".

2) Return for each words a collection of it's synonyms.

Does anybody know of such a tool?

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

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I assume you care only about English.

The first problem you have is called stemming. This SO post recommends this Java implementation of the Porter stemmer.

WordNet has a pretty big human created/curated database of words and their relations that includes synonyms among other things. Here is a Java API to WordNet.

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answered Jan 11 '12 at 14:46

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This Porter stemmer is very nice for regular verbs, but for V3 verbs it fails. Is there a tool that can complete it for successful V3 analysis? – Eddie Dovzhik Jan 16 '12 at 17:51
It also fails for other verbs, like pause for example. – Eddie Dovzhik Jan 16 '12 at 17:54

Finding synonyms and the basic form of tilted words

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