https://github.com/pharo-contributions/singularizepluralize

Transforming singular nouns to their plural form and vice versa.
https://github.com/pharo-contributions/singularizepluralize

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Transforming singular nouns to their plural form and vice versa.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/pharo-contributions/singularizepluralize
• Owner: pharo-contributions
• License: mit
• Created: 2019-07-19T15:17:08.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-06-08T13:03:35.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-25T21:41:08.939Z (8 days ago)
• Topics: language, natural-language-processing, nlp, pharo, pharo-smalltalk, smalltalk
• Language: Smalltalk
• Size: 41 KB
• Stars: 10
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 2
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# SingularizePluralize

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A simple [Pharo](http://pharo.org/) library for transforming singular nouns to their plural form and vice versa. The implementation is based on the [inflection](https://inflection.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_modules/inflection.html) library in Python.

## Installation

 

To install the packages of SingularizePluralize, go to the Playground (Ctrl+OW) in your Pharo image and execute the following Metacello script (select it and press Do-it button or Ctrl+D):

```Smalltalk

Metacello new

  baseline: 'SingularizePluralize';

  repository: 'github://pharo-contributions/SingularizePluralize/src';

  load.

```

## How to use it?

The package simply extends class `String` with two messages: `asSingular` and `asPlural`. Here are some examples of converting singular nouns to their plural forms:

```Smalltalk

'banana' asPlural. "bananas"

'man' asPlural. "men"

'woman' asPlural. "women"

'matrix' asPlural. "matrices"

'child' asPlural. "children"

'knife' asPlural. "knives"

'thesis' asPlural. "theses"

'auditorium' asPlural. "auditoria"

```

Similarly, we can convert plural nouns to their singular forms:

```Smalltalk

'bananas' asSingular. "banana"

'men' asSingular. "man"

'women' asSingular. "woman"

'matrices' asSingular. "matrix"

'children' asSingular. "child"

'knives' asSingular. "knife"

'theses' asSingular. "thesis"

'auditoria' asSingular. "auditorium"

```

## If you find a mistake

Natural languages including English are very complex and irregular. It is hard to capture all rules and exceptions of pluralization with one algorithm. If you try to convert a noun to its singular/plural form and encounter a mistake, please report it by creating an issue with the title **Singular (Plural) of "X" should be "Y" not "Z"**. I will create a rule or add an exception to cover that case.