nltk/nltk

A potential edge case for WordNetLemmatizer.lemmatize()

bowenyi-umich opened this issue · 1 comments

Hello,

I realized that WordNetLemmatizer.lemmatize() would lemmatize word "us" to "u", which is not ideal most of the time. Maybe this issue could be fixed?

Best,
BW

ekaf commented

WordNetLemmatizer.lemmatize() always returns the shortest possible lemma. Admittedly, this is often not ideal, but it is the defining feature of that lemmatizer. So rather than changing it, I would prefer using an alternative lemmatizer, or developing a new one.
However, please also consider this criticism of the WordNetLemmatizer name.