I want to find all possible combinations of a list of words in a text (plural, singular, prefixed, etc.). Currently I defined the following function that uses a regex pattern to find a word in my text. But it doesn't match the word "nation" in the last sentence in my text (" who is a nation.") unless I replace the period with space (" who is a nation "). Similarly, it doesn't match the words "nationality" or "nations". I want to use a pattern so I can expand my code to match any words in a list of selected words in the text. Is there a way to check if these matchings exist in the text with a regex pattern? text = ''' we are the natio we love other nations. other nationalities are good too, we are that. who is a nation. ''' def WordsinSentence(word,sentence): pattern = re.compile(' '+word+' |^'+word+' | '+word+' $') # stem = tokenize_and_stem(sentence) # stemmed_sent = ' '.join(stem) if re.search(pattern,sentence.lower()): return True Continue reading...
