Find the base Verbs from derived NOUN forms

Asked May 10 '18 at 14:19

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How can I find the base (root) form of Verbs from derived NOUN forms? Here are some examples that I'm looking for. Is there any dictionary I can use?

Collection --> Collect
Maintenance --> Maintain
Replacement --> Replace

asked May 10 '18 at 14:19

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Related questions: [Convert words between verb/noun/adjective forms](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14489309/convert-words-between-verb-noun-adjective-forms/16752477) & [Getting the closest noun from a stemmed word](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17083442/getting-the-closest-noun-from-a-stemmed-word). Also you could try [this aproach](https://stackoverflow.com/a/18694016/4146962) using wordnet and nltk. – Sanxofon May 17 '18 at 15:56

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Don't know of a tool/dictionary that gets this automatically (i.e. verbs derived from nouns), but I guess you can derive some simple heuristics from something like this: https://lexsrv2.nlm.nih.gov/LexSysGroup/Projects/lvg/2015/docs/designDoc/UDF/derivations/suffixList.html

answered May 17 '18 at 14:28

Igor

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