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I'm trying to match a specific pattern: any verb with a noun ending with a s, t or l. E.g.: Like cat, Eat meal, Make Spices

How Can i do this?

I Know i was doing this:

nlp =spacy.load("en_core_web_sm")
matcher = Matcher(nlp.vocable)
pattern = [{"POS": "VERB"}, {"POS": "NOUN"}]
matcher.add("mypattern", [pattern])
​doc = nlp(Verbwithnoun)
matches = matcher(doc)

for match_id, start, end in matches:
string_id = nlp.vocab.strings[match_id] 
print(doc[start:end)

But that prints all verb with nouns not the noun ending with a t,l or s. How Can i get spacy to match only specific nouns ending with a t,l or s?

Laz22434
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You can post-process the results by checking if the phrase you get ends with either of the three letters:

import spacy
from spacy.matcher import Matcher

nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_sm")
matcher = Matcher(nlp.vocab)
pattern = [{"POS": "VERB"}, {"POS": "DET", "OP" : "?"}, {"POS": "NOUN"}]
matcher.add("mypattern", [pattern])
Verbwithnoun = "I know the language. I like the cat, I eat a meal, I make spices."
doc = nlp(Verbwithnoun)
matches = matcher(doc)

for match_id, start, end in matches:
    string_id = nlp.vocab.strings[match_id] 
    phrase = doc[start:end]
    if phrase.text.endswith('s') or phrase.text.endswith('t') or phrase.text.endswith('l'):
        print(doc[start:end])

Output:

like the cat
eat a meal
make spices
Wiktor Stribiżew
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Post processing is fine but you can also use regex in patterns directly. See the docs.

nlp =spacy.load("en_core_web_sm")
matcher = Matcher(nlp.vocable)
pattern = [{"POS": "VERB"}, {"POS": "NOUN", "TEXT": {"REGEX": "[lst]$"}}]
matcher.add("mypattern", [pattern])
​doc = nlp(Verbwithnoun)
matches = matcher(doc)

for match_id, start, end in matches:
string_id = nlp.vocab.strings[match_id] 
print(doc[start:end)
polm23
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