How to turn plural words singular?

Question

I\'m preparing some table names for an ORM, and I want to turn plural table names into single entity names. My only problem is finding an algorithm that does it reliably. He

Answer 1

As an improvement, you could use rules that generate multiple possibilities and then look up the results in a dictionary to weed out impossible options.

For example replace -ies with -y and -ie. Pies becomes Py and Pie. Only one of those is in the dictionary, so choose that one.

Perhaps you can even find a dictionary with frequency information and select the most common word you generate.

If you combine this with an ordered list of rules that covers a few exceptions, you might get pretty good accuracy.