Technique to remove common words(and their plural versions) from a string

Question

I am attempting to find tags(keywords) for a recipe by parsing a long string of text. The text contains the recipe ingredients, directions and a short blurb.

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Answer 1

Your problem domain is "Natural Language Processing".

If you don't want to reinvent the wheel, use NLTK, search for stemming in the docs.

Given that NLP is one of the hardest subjects in computer science, reinventing this wheel is a lot of work...