HardNLPnlp-395

Porter Step One A Plural Stripping

Problem

Porter step 1a strips plurals: replace a trailing "sses" with "ss", a trailing "ies" with "i", keep a trailing "ss", and otherwise drop a trailing "s".

Given a word, return the stemmed result.

Hint

Check the longest suffixes first.

Test cases

case 1

in: ["caresses"]

expected: "caress"

case 2

in: ["ponies"]

expected: "poni"

case 3

in: ["gas"]

expected: "ga"

Starter codePython

def porter_step_one_a_plural_stripping(word):
    # Your code here
    pass

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