how to use spacy lemmatizer to get a word into basic form

Question

I am new to spacy and I want to use its lemmatizer function, but I don\'t know how to use it, like I into strings of word, which will return the string with the basic form the w

Answer 1

Code :

import os
from spacy.en import English, LOCAL_DATA_DIR

data_dir = os.environ.get('SPACY_DATA', LOCAL_DATA_DIR)

nlp = English(data_dir=data_dir)

doc3 = nlp(u"this is spacy lemmatize testing. programming books are more better than others")

for token in doc3:
    print token, token.lemma, token.lemma_

Output :

this 496 this
is 488 be
spacy 173779 spacy
lemmatize 1510965 lemmatize
testing 2900 testing
. 419 .
programming 3408 programming
books 1011 book
are 488 be
more 529 more
better 615 better
than 555 than
others 871 others

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