public Word Search(string word)
{
if (word == null)
{
return(null);
}
word = word.Trim().ToLower();
if (!NameToIDs.ContainsKey(word))
{
return(null);
}
return(GetWordDefinition(NameToIDs[word].FirstOrDefault()));
}
/// <summary>
/// Attempt to reduce the input word to a basic form
/// If no word found after normalizing, return null
/// </summary>
public string Normalize(string word)
{
var normalizedWord = wordNormalizer.Stem(word);
if (NameToIDs.ContainsKey(normalizedWord))
{
return(normalizedWord);
}
normalizedWord = wordNormalizer.Lemmatize(word);
if (NameToIDs.ContainsKey(normalizedWord))
{
return(normalizedWord);
}
return(null);
}
