Base word stemming instead of root word stemming in R

Question

Is there any way to get base word instead of root word in stemming using NLP in R?

Code:

> #Loading libraries
> library(tm)
> library(slam)
>         


        

Answer 1

When I needed to do something similar, I wrote out my list of words in a text file, and fed it to the English Lexicon Project's web query tool, then parsed the result back into R. A little clunky, but lots of good data is available from ELP. For your use, Check out ELP's MorphSP. For happiness, it gives {happy}>ness>

http://elexicon.wustl.edu/query14/query14.asp