ntlk: how to get inflections of words

Question

I have a list of words, nearly 5000 English words, and for each word I need these inflectional forms:

• noun: singular and plural

• verb: infinitive, present simple, present simple 3rd person, past simple, present participle (ing form), past participle

• adjective: comparative and superlative

• adverb

How can I extract these information from a given word (e.g. help) in ntlk via Python? (or maybe there is a ready-made list)

Answer 1

For singularity and plurality you can always use 'pattern-en' library.