lemmatizing strings in Python

[paps511]

Hey,

 

So I have a string of words and I need to lemmatize it.

 

I know that 

lmtzr.lemmatize("cats")

will output "cat"

 

but how do I get 

x = ("cats cats cats cat")
lmtzr.lemmatize(x)

to output "cat cat cat cat"?

As it is, it will attempt to lemmatize "cats cats..." and it lemmatized it to "cats cats cats cat"

 

I was trying to do a for loop, but it would not work...

for word in x:
	lmtzr.lemmatize(word)

Any idea?

[Enderman]

for word in x.split(" ")

 

this should divide the string at each space

then after your loop you just need to append the output (plus a space) to a new string

[paps511]

15 minutes ago, Enderman said:

for word in x.split(" ")

 

this should divide the string at each space

then after your loop you just need to append the output (plus a space) to a new string

That did not work...
 

<code>

x = ("cats cats cats cat dogs dog")

for word in x.split(" "):
#    print (word)
    
lmtzr.lemmatize(word)

</code>

printed out 

'dog'

[Enderman]

10 minutes ago, paps511 said:

That did not work...
 

<code>

x = ("cats cats cats cat dogs dog")

for word in x.split(" "):
#    print (word)
    
lmtzr.lemmatize(word)

</code>

printed out 

'dog'

hm

i dont have python on my pc so i cant test sry

if you do your original code with the 

for word in x

print word

 

what does it print out

[paps511]

18 minutes ago, Enderman said:

for word in x.split(" ")

 

this should divide the string at each space

then after your loop you just need to append the output (plus a space) to a new string

c
a
t
s
 
c
a
t
s
 
c
a
t
s
 
c
a
t
 
d
o
g
s
 
d
o
g

[Enderman]

4 minutes ago, paps511 said:

c
a
t
s
 
c
a
t
s
 
c
a
t
s
 
c
a
t
 
d
o
g
s
 
d
o
g

ok yeah you definitely need to use split

 

try this:

 

x = 'cats cats cats cat dogs dog'

for word in x.split(" "):
    lmtzr.lemmatize(word)

    print (word)

 

make sure you dont forget the space between the " "

[paps511]

10 minutes ago, Enderman said:

ok yeah you definitely need to use split

 

try this:

 

x = 'cats cats cats cat dogs dog'

for word in x.split(" "):
    lmtzr.lemmatize(word)

    print (word)

 

make sure you dont forget the space between the " "

Yep, that was part it, I got it to work.

I needed another variable = " "

then 

for i in contractionless.split():
    lemmed += (lmtzr.lemmatize(i)) + " "

[Enderman]

1 minute ago, paps511 said:

Yep, that was part it, I got it to work.

I needed another variable = " "

then 

for i in contractionless.split():
    lemmed += (lmtzr.lemmatize(i)) + " "

yay